Committee calls for clarity on Government proposals to change triple lock

Defence Forces soldiers near Camp Shamrock. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Further safeguards and clarity are needed in the Government’s draft laws to change Ireland’s system for deploying troops abroad, a committee has recommended.

The Joint Committee on Defence and National Security published a report into the Government’s proposals to change the “triple lock”, which is the requirement for Government, Dail and UN approval to send more than 12 Irish soldiers overseas.