Sinead Gibney
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Appearances Over Time
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That's what the UN is there for.
But the UN was established at a time of immense global conflict.
So people talk a lot now about we are in a period of increased global volatility.
That is what the UN was born from.
And it said that when we act in regional blocs with our own self-interests at regional level, we will enter into world wars.
And you know who are going to be the worst affected by that is smaller nations.
And that's why we set up a global order to essentially rise above that and provide for a multilateral,
world and that's what we're leaving behind if we lose the triple lock.
And they're relying really heavily on that point.
And it's really disingenuous because, first of all, missions have been renewed since 2014 for a start.
But if we use the example of Irini, which is the one that's in there at the moment, like Irini can be satisfied by the UN General Assembly.
Like there are certain peacekeeping missions which do need Security Council approval.
But that's not again, this government isn't trying to do anything about it.
So can I ask you this?
That's reason enough.
And we're just going to go and leave it all behind, leave multilateralism behind.
Niall talked a lot about trust there and that the people need to trust the government.
I mean, first of all, I think that's questionable given how many U-turns we've seen from this government since they've been in office.
I mean, we still don't have an OTB two years on, an Occupied Territories Bill.
But besides that, this would allow for any government of the future to deploy troops in a way that provides for no oversight and no guardrails.