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.

 

The people who have genuine concerns about arms, defence and such matters are the sort of people I would like to persuade to vote "Yes". How do I persuade them to do so when the high representative has an obsession with secrecy regarding the rapid reaction force, an issue concerning which we are told there is nothing to hide? If it does what it is supposed to do, such a force is, in principle, a good thing. If the high representative is treating it as if we had new weapons about which nobody else knew wrapped up in layers of secrecy, how do I persuade young people to whom I listen about this matter? We must work it out. If, as I believe, it is an entirely innocuous positive project, then it does not need the layers and masses of secrecy in which Javier Solana has dressed it.

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