Draft legislation to amend the State’s “triple lock” on the deployment of Defence Forces peacekeepers overseas will be brought to cabinet this week, Tánaiste Simon Harris has said.
Mr Harris said Ireland’s “proud tradition” in peacekeeping cannot be held up by “paralysis at UN”.
The Tánaiste insisted that the proposed changes had “nothing whatsoever to do” with military neutrality.
Under the current system, Ireland cannot deploy any more than 12 Defence Forces peacekeepers overseas without a peacekeeping mission being approved by a vote of the UN Security Council – as well as approval by the Government and the Dáil.
Mr Harris told the RTÉ This Week programme: “The idea of the UN Security Council having a veto on where we deploy Irish troops in relation to peacekeeping is something that needs to be modified.
“The UN Security Council hasn’t found itself in a position to authorise a peacekeeping mission since…
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