Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will certainly be happy to bring one but perhaps the Minister would like to bring forward an amendment that clarifies matters with regard to UN missions. I do not believe that is the concern and the Minister will see from my many other amendments that UN missions are not the main concern.

I accept that we seek to influence them and we have sought to influence UNIFIL. I believe that Ireland should, for example, continue to engage with and seek to influence the UN mission in Western Sahara at the moment to expand it to have a human rights observatory function rather than simply a referendum - which is not happening - monitoring function. That is fine. All the examples the Minister gave were the United Nations, however. Going back to what we discussed previously, the fact is that these are not all United Nations missions. They are not all United Nations mandates. Yes, there is a structure and, perhaps, I or the Minister might bring a revised version of this whereby he would say that where it is not a UN mission or a UN-mandated mission under, for example, an established structure with the six-month rotations, and if there are-----