Cathy Bennett (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The apartheid South Africa leader de Klerk lobbied the then Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, in 1993 advocating that the ban be lifted as it would benefit South Africans. A visit by Dr. de Klerk was opposed by the current President Michael D. Higgins on the basis that the apartheid system had not wholly been deconstructed and that South Africa was still under international sanction. Would Mr. O'Brien fall into the de Klerk or the Michael D. Higgins camp on lifting the ban against South Africa while apartheid was still in place?