Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chairman for getting a response from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the motion on the Armenian genocide. It is unfortunate that the same four lines were put at the very end of it, as were in the reply given to the parliamentary question tabled by Sinn Féin last Tuesday. I fail to understand how Ireland cannot take a position until there is international consensus on the matter. The Pope represents 1 billion people. The European Union has a few countries involved and the European Parliament has managed to pass something and yet we are waiting like sheep to follow everybody else. I wonder if we could get whoever it is in our esteemed Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to allow us to take a position on the issue and not allow us to be sheep.