Helen McEntee

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Today with David McCullagh · Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

If we move into the Trade Council and into the trade space, it requires what's called QMV.

It's 55% of the population of all of the member states together.

So depending on what countries vote what way, it is a less bar that you have to achieve.

For the very first council that we will be hosting during our presidency on the 13th of July, the Commission now have to bring forward proposals of exactly just that.

So this is the first time that they have committed to bringing forward other proposals and we have to act accordingly.

I cannot be clearer on this, and this is the point that I've made time and time again.

Europe has not been strong enough in responding to the atrocities that we are seeing every single day, not just in Gaza, where the humanitarian crisis is still getting worse, not just what we're seeing in Lebanon, where the same playbook has been used as the West Bank, but now in the West Bank, the prospect of...

of a two-state solution, which is the only solution for a peace in the region for those particular countries and for the wider region.

That is getting less and less of a possibility because of what Israel is doing.

So if the EU doesn't act now, that is not going to be possible for the region and for Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side.

So I'm advocating for this.

I hope at the First Council that we will be chairing, that this will be on the agenda and that we will then be able to, after that, vote on this and take firm action because that is what is needed at this stage.

The Claire Byrne Show · Minister for Foreign Affairs on the Triple Lock · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

Look, I think it's only natural if you're changing what is longstanding policy or legislation, there's going to be debate and discussion.

But I mean, I saw this week alone, three Fianna Fáil colleagues who were out very clearly in support of that change.

So again, my understanding is that they're asking for debate on what exactly it means.

I mean, we've had the triple lock in legislation for a number of decades now.

And what we're proposing to change, and this was agreed in our programme for government, is that we would remove the element of it, which essentially allows countries like China, like Russia, like the US to dictate not only where we keep our peacekeeping troops, but potentially where we send them.

And personally, and I think most people agree, it shouldn't be for any country to decide where we send our troops.

And it's important that we have this debate.

It's important that we discuss it because I do think there's a lot of misinformation out there.

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