Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

In response to Deputy Higgins, when the first Papal Nuncio was appointed to the State, in 1930, he automatically assumed the position of Dean of the Diplomatic Corps. There is no sense of a demand within the diplomatic corps for any change whatsoever. One would have to go through a rotational system, or whatever, and it might even cause more problems than one would wish. We have not always followed the example of the Court of St. James in terms of how we do things here, as the Deputy knows.

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