Micheál Martin

the CTA was positive for Irish and British people but that it constantly needed to be managed as people would “endeavour to abuse it”.

I don't think we should always reduce the issue to one particular game or one particular event. Football has been on the up in more recent times and I would hate to see the team lose out on future qualification prospects.

The Occupied Territories Bill is a "symbolic act" because the amount of trade between the Occupied Territories and Ireland is "very, very low".

UEFA and FIFA have their rules

Ireland will help "break the back" of their remaining homework during its EU presidency term.

We are not going to go backwards in respect of this. I think the board of the Rotunda will have to reflect.

Every country deserves to get the opportunity which Ireland was granted in the 1970s.

Montenegro’s accession would send a strong signal to other countries in the region that the hurdles to EU membership can be successfully overcome.

In my view, their behaviour justifies sanctions at EU level as well, and that’s something that we will raise, whether we can get sufficient support across the European Union is a different matter,

That's again something that the international community needs to take on board and we will be pursuing that with others.

Ireland will help break the back of their remaining homework during its EU presidency term.

we desperately need perspective on this

I do not want to see materials produced by Aughinish Alumnia in Limerick used in any shape or form in weapons deployed in Russia's war on Ukraine.

Ireland would break the back of the EU accession negotiations for Montenegro during its presidency of the EU.

The fact that we're now in a position to open negotiations is a welcome step, and we should take that as a good start.

I regretted the fact that he resigned from Government. I didn't think at the time that that was necessary or the correct course of action.

That's a very serious issue. The gardaí are pursuing that matter and we await developments on that.

a strong principled stance

We need to be realistic and need to be honest with people in respect of what we can achieve via this legislation.

Thousands of workers in Ireland would be affected by a full Israeli boycott.

Ireland has taken a strong principled stance on Israel's actions, and to focus the debate on a game does not do justice to the enormity or complexity of the issue.

We desperately need perspective on this.

Ireland should not have a statutory bar on the consideration of nuclear energy.

It can't all be boiled down to one football game.

We don't want to damage ourselves unnecessarily.