Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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Next up is Deputy Haughey, followed by Deputy Howlin. I do not normally do this because it is queue-skipping and I do not like to do that, but before I let Deputy Haughey in, I wish to make a point. I do not want the Minister to respond to the point, but to keep it in the back of his mind. Perhaps some of the other members might raise the issue. On the question that Deputy Calleary put to the Minister on the lack of foresight, I do not want to use the term "diplomatic failure", so I will not use it. The Minister stated that he does not want to get into a blame game, but he did say that lessons have been learned. I do not want to jump the queue, but perhaps towards the end of the meeting the Minister could elaborate more on the lessons learned.