4. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent European Council. [25527/25]
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The Taoiseach referenced the galloping militarisation happening at EU level. It underlines the importance of Ireland's neutrality in that context and the importance of the struggle to defend that neutrality. Significant numbers will be on the streets this Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Garden of Remembrance to do so. What we have heard about the triple lock has confirmed the basic point the Taoiseach made in 2013, which was that it is at the core of our neutrality. What we have seen in the heads of Bill and what we heard in the Oireachtas committee from the Department of Defence two weeks ago has underlined our fears and the fact that what is proposed is a total abolition of the triple lock and the effective end of what is left of neutrality. Would the Taoiseach agree with the Department of Defence in committee that the heads of Bill would allow Irish troops, more than 50, to be sent abroad without UN approval as part of US-led coalitions or as part of NATO or EU-led missions? Does the Taoiseach agree with it that it would have meant that troops could have been sent to participate in the invasion of Iraq?
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NATO.
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It does not.
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Yes but the General Assembly-----
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15. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will next meet. [29326/25]
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Two weeks ago, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of unnecessary surgeries on children said to have hip dysplasia and unnecessary osteotomies. I questioned why the surgeons responsible had not been suspended or at the very least suspended from carrying out osteotomies. Since then, I have learned it is even worse than I feared. There was a meeting last Tuesday to decide on surgical indicators into the future for which children should get these operations. The two surgeons representing Temple Street were involved in doing unnecessary surgeries, according to the audit. The people responsible for the crisis are now writing the rules for who will get these operations in the future. It is mind-blowing. I do not know if the Government is aware of that. Does the Taoiseach think it is appropriate that the two surgeons representing Temple Street in these meetings conducted a significant number of unnecessary operations, according to the audit? Instead of driving it, they should be nowhere near this process.
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28. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Taoiseach for a report on new shared island projects. [29327/25]
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A shared island should not have an invisible hard border for non-EU migrants, but that is the case currently. I have raised this multiple times. In the past a somewhat sympathetic hearing was given to the likes of the North West Migrants Forum. In this atmosphere of performative cruelty by the Government on migration, I fear it will not make any moves on this. I would be interested to hear it. I follow up on the question raised by Deputy Coppinger. We are talking about primary school kids being taken out of their home, other children who go to school with them being traumatised, the principal talking about the impact this is having, and then the Minister, let us be clear, goes onto social media and boasts about it. It is Trump-like. That is who Jim O'Callaghan is aping, trying to look hard on migration and trying to problematise migration to distract from the failures of the Government. I have one question. It has been reported in some places that at least some of the children being deported were born in Ireland. Is that the case?
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That is why it is invisible. It does not affect most people.
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For a migrant it is.
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These are EU migrants who are legally present in the North and cannot travel to the South. That is the point I am making.
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Not in that part of my question.
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No, they cannot. That is why it is a hard border.
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