David Norris (Independent)

—on the subject of neutrality and not giving it to us. I look forward to further discussions on this question of neutrality, but there is not much point in our getting involved.

I would like to see the United Nations supported. What worries and concerns me is that the draining away of energy and resources and military capacity from the United Nations into these private armies, like the new European army, will destroy the United Nations. I put that in the context of the wonderful programme broadcast by RTE last night on the late Seán Lester, who was so instrumental in the League of Nations and managed to hang on in Geneva until the end of the war. They did manage to continue certain ideas and paved the way for the United Nations, but what happened to the League of Nations, and the way in which it was weakened, could very easily happened again to the United Nations, particularly because the malign intent of countries like the United States of America. It is up to all the small nations to band together to prevent that happening.