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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The old trope of conscription-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: That is your trope.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----and of joining a European army has been in every referendum.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I did not mention "conscription"-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy just asked if I was going to send Irish troops out to fight in colonial wars-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I asked where the Tánaiste would want to send them. Where does the Government want to send them after they lift the triple lock?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt. I am entitled, through the Chair, to argue and make points to the House and to answer the questions the Deputy has raised. My point is a valid point and I will not be browbeaten by the Deputy just as she tried to browbeat me last year when I had a consultative forum, which is a basic act of participative democracy. She tried everything to denigrate the chair and tried...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Tánaiste cancelled the citizen's assembly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----and we can only discuss them on her terms. That is the only basis on which she thinks we can discuss issues of neutrality and the triple lock. I believe in military neutrality and we are militarily neutral. The triple lock has nothing to do with military neutrality-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----but it has everything to do with the incapacity and the paralysis on the Security Council around peacekeeping missions. We have a proud peacekeeping record in this country. We are in UNIFIL in Lebanon. There are examples where we were not in a position to help. In 1999, a permanent member of UN Security Council vetoed the renewal of the United Nations preventive deployment force and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: It does not make sense.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Smith knows that I said that time and again yet it is disappointing that she deliberately distorts the truth with her assertions. Anything we do, including the legislative proposals we will bring forward, will be absolutely within the framework of the UN Charter. That has always been our esprit de corps as a country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Murphy is correct. It does not make any sense. It is totally illogical to say that we will operate within the UN Charter and, at the same time, we want to break free of the UN Security Council. They are part and parcel of the same package. The Tánaiste has gone back to when he was aged 12 and how he remembers the campaign and how we threatened that there was going to be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: That is a monstrous lie and assertion to suggest that removing the triple lock will facilitate, will be a factor in, or result in young Irish people fighting in wars. The European Union is not a colonial power. This exactly proves my point. The Deputy is denying past campaigns and she has just reiterated the entire campaign-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I would describe it as a colonial power.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: It is not a colonial power. It has no colonies. It is not Russia. The real imperialism of today is Russia.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: It has a colony called "Israel".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy just does pro forma. She will articulate a formulation in this Chamber.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: The Tánaiste does not answer the questions.