Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

As the Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, has remained in the Chamber perhaps he can confirm his references to the 25th anniversary of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Did the then Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, send the then Minister for Foreign Affairs to the United Nations to contest and campaign against the Anglo-Irish Agreement? I think the then Minister for Foreign Affairs was the father of the current Minister for Finance.

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