Sinead Gibney

And this line about other governments deciding where we send our troops is is the line that is being trotted out by every single government spokesperson.

No, I don't believe it is true.

I believe that the government wants to move away from peacekeeping towards the deployment of our troops for regional military interests.

And that is why they are moving away from it.

And I have asked again and again, has the government tried to use the General Assembly to satisfy the triple lock?

Because that is part of the 2006 Act that we can do that.

And there is no evidence that's come to me that they are doing that, that they are looking to reform the UN in any way, in any meaningful way.

Yes.

Yeah, no, not a UN mandate, but they can mandate.

So, for example, if you were looking at the Irini mandate, which France didn't even seek a UN mandate for that, because we know it's not going to, because it is seeking to target the Russian shadow fleet, which is another term that I have an issue with, by the way, because it is meant to sound scaremongering.

The Russian shadow fleet is Russian tankers carrying sanctioned oil, which I appreciate needs to be monitored and stopped.

But Russian shadow fleet, I think, sounds a bit, you know...

But nonetheless, the point is that that is the exact type of mission that could have gone to the UN to say, OK, we know we're not going to get Security Council approval for that because Russia is on the Security Council.

So that's one that you could have gone to the General Assembly for to say we need to use the UN.

against Russia, to police Russia and to monitor Russia.

And nobody is bothering to do that because there is no interest in Europe right now in doing that.

Europe is pivoting towards a path of militarisation.

And that's where the kind of the only show in town is at the moment in Europe.

And that's what Ireland is buying into hook, line and sinker and leaving behind our tradition and legacy of foreign policy, which is determined by multilateralism.

And that's why Fianna Fáil spokespeople or Fianna Fáil backbenchers have shouted out about this.