Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

With the greatest of respect to the Deputies, they have played politics with this. They did not quote my full statement to the House on the motion in question, when I made it very clear that we would await South Africa's filing a substantive case and that our legal people would, in the meantime, examine any particular grounds we could explore in respect of any legal intervention we might make. They are very narrow. I am very clear that the Deputies opposite have condemned Government. They have tried to create a wedge in domestic politics on this issue, as have others in this House. Let us not pretend that has not happened. They have successfully and critically condemned Government over the expulsion of ambassadors, on which they have flip-flopped, and a range of other issues.

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