Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

As I have said, the Irish position and the Government's position on Turkey's candidacy is that we support it. Certain conditions have to be met before any country can accede to the EU. Those conditions have to be fully met, clearly, as there cannot be a kind of partial meeting of the conditions. The process by which they are negotiated is at an early stage.

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