Tánaiste Micheál Martin will seek Government permission to draft a bill to change how the Defence Forces are deployed on peacekeeping missions overseas.
Tánaiste Micheál Martin will seek Government permission to draft a bill to change how the Defence Forces are deployed on peacekeeping missions overseas.
Under the UN Charter, the Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. This would require legislative changes, but the Tánaiste will tell colleagues that any deployment would still have to receive Government and Dáil approval. The new legislation will look at these types of deployments to provide clarity on the numbers that can be dispatched.
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