In questions put to the Tánaiste today by People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy about the consultative forum, Murphy said that the list of invited speakers “gives the game away to an extreme degree”.
THERE WAS FRACTIOUS exchanges in the Dáil today between opposition TDs and the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Micheál Martin after the Tánaiste announced Ireland’s first “Consultative Forum on International Security Policy” in April.
A change to the Triple Lock system was mooted by then Minister for Defence and Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney in November, after Fine Gael members voted in favour of such a move at its annual conference. The Tánaiste said he found it “shocking” how Murphy’s party operate with their “intolerance of a wide variety of views of debate”.
Martin added that he thinks the view of the opposition is that “certain people should not be allowed speak” because they have an conflicting opinion to theirs.“You guys are no great advocates of freedom of speech at all, and I shudder to think of the day where you might be in authority,” Martin said.
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