Aidan Davitt (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I know that this is something close to the Leader's own heart as a person who has been involved with the Defence Forces. My thoughts are with all of the soldiers in Camp Shamrock today. Hezbollah's actions are despicable in using the cover of the Irish camp in Lebanon as a foil to fire indiscriminate rockets into Israel. It is putting peacekeepers under threat and my thoughts - people from Mullingar and the midlands are serving there at present, including people I would know - are certainly with those members of the Defence Forces. I was talking with some relations who are very worried with what is going on there at present, about the way in which Hezbollah is using the cover of the UN and trying to take cover under the UN's coat-tails to provoke Israel, or whatever else.