Seanad debates

Thursday, 12 September 2002

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht, 2002: An Dara Céim. Twenty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 2002: Second Stage.

 

I suggest that the only way there will ever be the sort of large-scale immigration suggested by the "No" campaign is if Europe were to fail to prevent future conflicts as it did in the past in the Balkans. The bottom line is that Ireland, like each EU member state, will have the right to approve or not every operation of the EU military force. We will have the right to decide ourselves whether to participate or not in each and every operation. We will have to get Oireachtas approval on every occasion and, under the Defence Act, we can only take part in UN-mandated operations.

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