As regards any action taken outside the legitimacy of the United Nations, Ireland must refuse to allow its facilities to be used to assist military aggression against Iraq. If we continue to condone overflights by the US military, Ireland will stand as the only neutral state in Europe to permit use of its airspace to US forces engaged in the conflict against Iraq. Are we now to re-invent the word "neutrality"? Is it, perhaps, a concept that allows for expansion or contraction at will? Austria, Finland and Sweden have made it clear that they regard military action against Iraq as illegal without a fresh UN resolution. Austria's Chancellor has said that a US-led attack on Iraq could not be regarded as an act of self-defence and would be in breach of the UN Charter. Austria is bound to neutrality by the 1955 state treaty and its constitution, which prohibits membership of military alliances and the establishment of foreign military bases on its territory.