Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to make a brief comment. I am asking Senator Daly to postpone this motion for one week. First, our President is in Turkey this week at other events. Second, Deputy Eric Byrne and Deputy Durkan have made a point. I am not happy with the reply from the Department that Deputy Crowe read out. We need a more comprehensive reply on why successive Governments have not recognised it. It is not only this Government but successive Governments down through the years which have not done so. I am asking to postpone the motion. If we got a more comprehensive reply in respect of why this was not supported by various Governments, then we could put it on the agenda for next week. We know it is sensitive and so on, but given the week that is in it, I am asking for a one-week postponement and then we can have it on the agenda for next week.