MARCH 2025 UPDATE: Those who have signed the petition still have no confidence in the Consultative Forum that was held. The Government now says that ‘modifying the Triple Lock was a recommendation of the Consultative Forum process’ – no wonder! A majority of the invited speakers had vested interests as advocates of Irish and EU militarisation, and propagandists for moves that will actually undermine Irish neutrality. There were very few representatives of the 75% of Irish electorate who respect a meaningful active pro-peace neutrality.
Any move to abolish the Triple Lock guarantee, which is recognised by the EU in the Seville Declaration, would be anti-democratic. This guarantee was made to the Irish people by the Fianna Fail Governments under Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen at the time of the 2002 Nice Treaty2 and the 2008 Lisbon Treaty2 referendums respectively to secure a YES vote in each referendum. The full democratic process must be adhered to if the Government wants to remove or change it.
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We, the undersigned, have no confidence in the Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin’s “Consultative Forum on International Security” .
We need a genuine public forum for the people of Ireland to engage in, with representation of the breadth of views that exist available to be discussed, debated, and decided by the people of this land. Outside of a referendum a citizen’s assembly is the appropriate forum for public consultation and debate.
We must heed Article 29 of the Constitution Bunreacht na hÉireann:
“Ireland affirms its adherence to the principle of the pacific settlement of international disputes.”
In the interests of the Irish people, we call for no changes to be made with regards to Ireland’s current neutrality criteria of the Triple Lock safeguard [1], and no further commitments to join new EU/NATO defence alliances without holding a Citizen’s Assembly or a referendum on Irish Neutrality.
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