Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

Would it be preferable that the Taoiseach has a specialist adviser in regard to the situation in Northern Ireland to work exclusively on the agenda of the significant work that lies ahead in embedding the peace process and in advancing the North-South agenda in terms of linkages with communities and in particular the social and economic advancement of conditions of the people of the island of Ireland? To be frank, there is a need to have someone within the Department of the Taoiseach devoted full-time and exclusively to working on that agenda.

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