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Ireland's neutrality will be "completely unaffected" by proposed changes to the triple lock, despite criticism from opposition TDs, according to a Government minister

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Taoiseach Michéal Martin said he did not want Russia, China or the United States having a veto on deployments

Here, we have a look at the issues likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come

They can be used to attack enemy vehicles, boats and drones.

Simon Harris said Ireland’s ‘proud tradition’ in peacekeeping cannot be held up by ‘paralysis at UN’.

In an interview with BreakingNews.ie, former TD and soldier Cathal Berry said the triple lock is "nothing to do with Ireland's policy of neutrality"

Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty told Micheál Martin such a ‘fundamental’ policy shift should be put to the Irish people in a referendum.

Leo Varadkar said he was never a fan of the triple lock and that he did not regard the concept as being part of Irish neutrality.