Pat Rabbitte
Question:61 Mr. Rabbitte asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the recent speech to the Institute of International Strategic Studies in Brussels by the President of the European Commission, Mr. Jacques Delors, in which he expressed the view that the Community needed strategic defence planning and that the Western European Union should develop into a genuine European defence structure; if the Government concurs with this view; if not, the steps, if any, he will take to ensure that the President is made aware of the Government's views; if he will publish a document on the way in which the Government sees the development of European Defence Policy in the context of Maastricht and the proposed review in 1996; and if he will make a statement on the matter.