Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

-----the numbers of staff but keeping a presence on the ground in many of the smaller eastern European states. There clearly were alternatives.

Those who have hyped up this for political reasons are members of the Taoiseach's political party and the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Creighton, who should be supporting the Tánaiste or, at least, acting in unison with him-----

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