Therefore, our neutrality is intact.

If you were to boil down what military neutrality means is that we aren't a member of any common defence pact and removing the triple lock doesn't make us a member of any common defence pact.

But it has been through the United Nations for the last 25 years.

It's codified our relationship with the UN in terms of peacekeeping and it is one expression of what our neutrality is and an important one at that.

In the point I was making in the Dáil, because I'm a bit frustrated that this debate has been boiled down to save neutrality, you know, remove the triple lock, keep the triple lock.

It is far more complex and nuanced and important than that.

So I was trying to make that point in the Dáil because we need to have a debate because this government are in their silence about why they're removing the triple lock.

goes and UNDOF is already gone.

Duncan.

What I was sa- was, what I was saying with that example was it showed the resolve, uh, of these workers to enter into industrial action.

That, you know, knowing they would be financially impacted.

Uh, I think I would have huge concerns if members of the government, government parties are kind of banking on that resolve to, to weaken amongst the workers, because the workers, 98% of them voted for this.

They have not done it light- lightly.

We are 17 years since this has last happened, right when we were at the very start of the worst economic period in, in, in our history.

So the way this could be resolved is, I actually think Ja- this is past Jack Chambers by a bit.

And they, and then they were naked and everything.

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the threats that social media posts, uh, proposes.

Uh, so I, I'm, I'm hugely troubled by this.

It, it feels new to us politically and conversationally, but this is not new.

Like, I had a briefing last week, or I was present at a briefing last week, uh, with, uh, uh, Under Secretary General Tom Fletcher from the U- United Nations, who spoke about AI drones being used in the battlefield right now in, in Ukraine, and these, what makes them different from regular drones is that they're programmed to kill and target a, a, a military target in the first instance.

But when it starts to run out of power, it then is programmed to just kill, uh, indiscriminately.

At the end.

And we were attracted to that.

Yeah, we were.

You know, just imagine a thousand people every single night.

I mean, you know because you were part of the Brownsville revival and you were there.

You know, in Toronto, we had an average of a thousand people every single night for 12 years apart from Monday nights, which we took off after six months, you know.

john and carol realized we can't keep going at that level but some nights you know there could be up to 7 000 people you know especially in our youth conference and then you know but an average every night of over a thousand people coming from all over the world and we got immersed into it like halfway through you know in five with about five years after it began and and the power of god was just so immense in that moment and and people would be And this was the amazing thing is that John Arnott had this way of asking people, okay, what was God doing when you were sprinting around the entire auditorium or on the ground and you're going like this? One pastor who pastors like a thousand people church from somewhere close to Washington, D.C., a Methodist pastor.

And he's on the platform because, you know, John had sort of gone like that towards him.

And I think sometimes God wants, it's not that he's keeping us away from this thing that we're seeking in our hearts, but sometimes we're so programmed in the old way that it's our own limitations in our mentality that keep us being able to enter into the promised

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And he would have gently and he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate.

But no one gave him anything.

I told you I used to be a farmer.

We were pig farmers.

My gosh, it was terrible.

My mom and dad would come back from Nigeria and I'd be among all my uncles.

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But can you describe for listeners who might not be familiar with this, the interaction between these international organizations and domestic law enforcement? The international organizations, of course, sit over multiple borders by definition, but must, uh, operate through national or local law enforcement.

enforcement.There's a close link between, you know, the finding of fraud and corruption on a project and the implication that means for local law enforcement.

In many occasions, we can make a referral to a national law enforcement so they can use their criminal justice powers, you know, search warrants and so forth, to investigate the allegations and put together evidence of criminal offense and seek a conviction.

Various law enforcement have a range of powers.

The US DOJ, for example, I think rewards very well whistleblowers, so that's a clear positive in terms of emerging issues and accountability.

Another one is the UK, where the recovery of criminal assets and the unexplained wealth orders are becoming significant to people who may have misused money or may have been given money or bribes.

There are various possibilities for local law enforcement, but there has to be greater cooperation between the players.

Before we wrap up, Duncan, what thoughts would you like to leave listeners with on this topic more generally? It's a vast area, but it sits sort of off by itself to a certain extent, and a lot of people in the private sector and even in government don't interact with it a great deal.

Did you raise that issue when you met with the German ambassador, and what did he say if you did?

Uh, yes, we raised that issue, um, and the, the fact that he's only entitled to two half-hour visits a month, uh, which were behind glass, um, and limited access to reading and other materials.

So we raised all these concerns, uh, with, uh, the ambassador.

Uh, the ambassador, uh, communicated our concerns to his government, and we received a, a written response, uh, a number of weeks later, uh, to indicate that from the German state's perspective, that this tr- trial and how the, uh, these defendants were being held was, uh, fair, uh, and that they w- due process was going to take place.

Again, this is something we refute, we refute strongly.

So while it was a very professional and indeed frank exchange with the ambassador, and we're aware of the limits of, uh, what the ambassador could do, uh, it, it, it didn't change or move the dial at all.

Uh, this trial is, is moving forward.

He said the fact that his son has been shackled hand and foot and put behind full glass screens and denied bail, that it all portrays Daniel to be a serious and dangerous criminal in a way that he believes is, is completely disproportionate to what he's been accused of.

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Yeah.

Vertical integration can be a bit of a double-edged sword, but for us, absolutely.

It's a competitive advantage.

And to come back to your comment about seeing Kiel at Tricon 10 years ago.

So Oban's original boutique rental platform was founded in 2013.

And so what we were doing mid-rise was an open space and rental was an open space.

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Duncan Smith, as a TD and the foreign affairs spokesman for the Labour Party, why do you want the game to be canceled?

Because, Matt, we want to put as much pressure, um, as possible upon Israel to show that their actions in Gaza and the West Bank and Lebanon and beyond are intolerable to the international community.

Uh, we have very limited levers to pull to demonstrate to Israel, uh, that their behavior is utterly unacceptable, and that's putting it in the most polite terms.

Uh, it is absolutely reprehensible.

Uh, and we need to invoke, uh, boycotts, uh, and sanctions where we can.

Uh, we saw one already, uh, where Ireland boycotted, uh, the Eurovision.

Uh, and now with this draw in the Nations League, uh, we have an opportunity to show yet again, and it has majority backing of Irish football fans and the Irish public, uh, that, you know, we do not accept Israel into U- uh, the same tournaments as us, UEFA tournaments.

... does Israel give a damn about what Ireland does in relation to Eurovision or football, that it's in any way going to change its behavior?

What is the situation with the Lucan pool, Duncan? Are you aware of that at the moment?

The Lucan Pool is a South County Dublin pool, I understand.

It's not in the Fingal area, so I don't have too much...

It's not your real catchment, right? It's not my real catchment, but what we experience in Fingal is the only local authority area in the country that doesn't have a public pool.

There is one coming on stream in Balbriggan, which has been lost, delayed.

But our key one is the Bob Marr Sports and Leisure Centre pool, which isn't a local authority pool, but has served...

in that capacity for nearly 40 years and has huge degree of public access and has rates commensurate with Dublin City Council pool rates.

Yeah, we can.

Duncan, what's your take on these objections?

I'm very disappointed that they've gone in.

They are going to cause undue delay, even if they are dealt with expeditiously, going to cause an undue delay to a transformational project that is needed throughout Dublin.

And to think that inconvenience in terms of the construction of this project is limited to, I don't even want to say Dartmouth Square, because it's at the back of Dartmouth Square.

It's a laneway which actually can be accessed from the canal, like It's not impacting, you know, there's no land acquisition or anything like that, but it will be an inconvenience.

But it's going to be an inconvenience in Swords, where open spaces and playing pitches are going to be impacted, Glass-Nevin, the city centre, because we're building a much-needed transformational project that's going to tackle the congestion that we have.

You mentioned we inch along in traffic in Rennelay.

But the residents