Results 101-120 of 573 for speaker:Sinéad Gibney
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: -----but does Mr. Power see a connection between the triple lock and multilateralism even? Does he concede that?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: Mr. Power does not. Does Dr. Burke?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: I am not asking that question.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: That is not the question I am asking.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: So, Dr. Burke does not see that it in any way supports multilateralism? He sees the opposite.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: Does Dr. Burke agree that multilateralism strengthens neutrality, no matter what the interpretation of neutrality?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: It is an active policy position. Mr. Power does not see that multilateralism is a way of strengthening neutrality in Ireland?
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: That is what I am trying to get to the bottom of, in fairness.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: When we talk to people they say that neutrality is important to them. We know it is important to the Irish people. We know that poll after poll tells us that. Yet, it is so confusing for people when they continuously hear from the Government, the Department and now the witnesses that there is no connection between this legislation, the triple lock, and even neutrality itself, even though...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: -----we were told this would help to protect our neutrality at a time we were being pulled into greater and stronger European Union membership.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: I have a couple of other questions, so I want to leave it there.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: You are holding the position that multilateralism and neutrality are not connected and that the triple lock and multilateralism are not connected either.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: That is fine. Building on some of the European Union features that have arisen here today and that Senator Higgins touched on, with the withdrawal from the Golan Heights to facilitate the participation in EU battlegroups it seems that we are focusing more on EU military missions. Meanwhile, some EU member states have recently left the cluster munitions treaty. Is there a potential for this...
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: It is unlikely on the basis that the Government would not agree with it, but there is nothing in this legislation to prevent it .
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: That is my question.
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: But it is-----
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: No, no. I would like to finish, please-----
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: No. Multiple times the witnesses are saying-----
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: Excuse me-----
- Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)
Sinéad Gibney: I have let him answer the question.