Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

-----on the Vatican and its approach to child abuse. That was the clear implication in the Taoiseach's response.

With respect, I have not hyped up anything here or gone with any current trend. I will tell the Taoiseach why. The proposal to close the embassy to the Vatican was brought before me, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, and I rejected it, just as I rejected the decision to close the embassies in Iran and East Timor-----

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