Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I am talking about the decision in respect of the Vatican. That decision was taken in the context that we have a small diplomatic service and we have to make maximum use of its resources. We are in circumstances where representation is spread very thinly. What I would like to have been able to do would have been to combine the embassy in Italy and the embassy in the Vatican. The position up to now has been that we have had two embassies in Rome, housed in two separate buildings, with two separate sets of staff-----