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Lisbon vote October 2nd - How do you intend to vote?

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    #3782
    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,941 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Elmo wrote: »
    Under Lisbon we are to be prepared to help any country in the EU that maybe invade i.e. Afaghan might one day invade the UK. If we have to improve or military we will have to spend money. Willie O'Dea in the Dail stated that the EDA (nothing to do with Lisbon) was there as good value for money. However we have under funded our military for so long that we now are in a situation when we do send tropes aboard and we over spend on rental of helicopters.

    The EU is obliged to help us if we're invaded, but because of our opt-outs, we're not obliged to help other EU countries. The condition of that is that we maintain our current spending on our military so as not to completely take the piss out of that arrangement.

    ⛥ ̸̱̼̞͛̀̓̈́͘#C̶̼̭͕̎̿͝R̶̦̮̜̃̓͌O̶̬͙̓͝W̸̜̥͈̐̾͐Ṋ̵̲͔̫̽̎̚͠ͅT̸͓͒͐H̵͔͠È̶̖̳̘͍͓̂W̴̢̋̈͒͛̋I̶͕͑͠T̵̻͈̜͂̇Č̵̤̟̑̾̂̽H̸̰̺̏̓ ̴̜̗̝̱̹͛́̊̒͝⛥



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    #3783
    EvilMonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,823 ✭✭✭EvilMonkey


    Elmo wrote: »
    The Guarantees on Lisbon do not effect how much we spend on our Military. Lisbon asks use to improve our military, how do you do that with out increasing spend?

    They train everyday to improve. :P


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    #3784
    Scofflaw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,283 ✭✭✭✭Scofflaw


    EvilMonkey wrote: »
    They train everyday to improve. :P

    Or they could tighten up procurement procedures, to pluck an example out of thin air - perhaps by using the EDA for their procurement.

    cordially,
    Scofflaw


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