The current scenario has exposed the hypocrisy and failure of Fianna Fáil's à la carte approach to neutrality. Ireland is not, and never was, a neutral country. It is time we faced up to that fact and held a constitutional referendum on neutrality. I hope we have a proper debate on neutrality once this war is over. The war has also exposed the weakness of the UN, but the solution does not lie in its being disbanded.. We must learn from mistakes made and strengthen the UN to ensure this will not happen again. We do not want the UN to follow the route of the League of Nations, the demise of which led to the Second World War and the loss of 60 million lives. We must strengthen our common EU defence policy. This was mooted in the recent Nice treaty debate and Fine Gael took a proactive role in that campaign. The current crisis highlights the weakness of both EU defence policy and the UN and we must learn from those mistakes.