Seanad debates

Wednesday, 25 June 2003

Military Neutrality: Motion.

 

It is important that we do not go out to flatter or to deceive. If we did, against a background of the existing constitutional requirement, we would simply be deceiving. We would be giving the impression to our European partners that we, as a Government, had the mandate from the people to take a leading role in discussions on any structures. My view is that we, as a party or a Government, either decide to cast off neutrality and go out with an open agenda, which seems to be envisaged by the motion, or on the other hand seek to lead the discussions with the big powers in the EU. Either way there is quite a considerable element of naivety about it and I do not see the merits.

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