Paul Murphy: Rejects Irish troop deployment, demands legacy inquiries

Taoiseach, as we speak, representatives of two big imperialist powers are sitting down in Saudi Arabia to decide the future of Ukraine, to carve it up without even any Ukrainian representatives being present. It's illustrative of the fact the world we live in is increasingly divided between these big imperialist powers and their rivalries and it underlines the need for Ireland to be a consistent voice against imperialism, against oppression and for peace. You know the Ukrainian people have suffered throughout all of this, throughout the horrendous invasion by Russia, then being willing to be with a US willing to use them, willing to see their people suffer in order to attempt to weaken Russia and then for them to walk away when the US decides under Trump we're going to pivot to Asia and their interests have always been really at the last of this. What is ironic is that the invasion of Ukraine was used in this country to drive an agenda of militarisation, people saying we need to align with the US, align with NATO. Now the coming to an end of this war is going to be used to say we need to align, we need to be part of some sort of European process of militarisation. Concrete question, Starmer has said he's willing to send British troops on the ground to Ukraine. Simon Harris hasn't ruled out Irish troops being sent. Will you rule out we will not be sending troops abroad and will you say we will not be sending military aid, lethal or so-called non-lethal, for an armed conflict? Simon Harris. In terms of, I would say more generally around the legacy issue, I'm watching I've watched Say Nothing on the Disney Channel and there's a whole lot of issues of bombings, murder, kidnapping of Gene McConville, where there's been no real attempt at closure, no real attempt at reconciliation, no attempt to say what happened was wrong. And it was just, if you look at the episode on the bombing of the Old Bailey, 200 innocent British people injured and maimed. Like what was all that about? So I think we do need to deal with legacy in the most comprehensive way. I think it's striking we haven't had a debate on Canova in this house. There's a comprehensive report. It deals with collusion between the British state and loyalist paramilitaries in the murder of innocent people and indeed of others. But it also deals with the campaign of the provisional IRA in terms of against its own people, as Canova describes it. But this house hasn't even had a debate on that. And that's something we should consider in terms of the comprehensive aspect of dealing with legacy. Because it does matter for future generations that these issues are properly teased out in terms of the use of violence for political ends. On Dublin Monaghan, I'm very clear that any material we have should be given to any inquiry. Just hear me out please a second. It happened, it has happened already where bespoke legislation was passed in respect of Kingsmills, for example, and where the judge there did pay tribute to the Irish government. I'm clear, and I've been saying to the Minister for Justice and the Minister's predecessor, that in respect of the OMA bombing, again, there's an inquiry up and running, that information should be provided by our government and our Department of Justice in particular to that. And just to make the point, that on the Dublin Monaghan bombing, it was previous Fianna Fianna Fianna Fian governments that led the way in terms of inquiries into the Dublin Monaghan bombing. And we know the outcome of the various reports in terms of access to the British files. I don't have time for the other deputies. Deputy Daly raised the energy market, the energy question. I just want to say, the meeting was a preparatory meeting for the summit, which is happening in March, which will be comprehensive, which will cover a wide range of issues, which will involve a number of ministers. And also, obviously, the security situation in Europe was discussed, as well as Northern Ireland and legacy. When we remember we gathered later on, we spent a lot of time waiting, moving on the course of 15 years, and it's possible to keep lifting up on how we looked at the whole family planning wheeled the gathering houses, and the home planning entity will be spent a year in the middle of this sport. And then, we put it all together, did a lot of effort that came out with Además Observer City and Carr��. And there and that there were some