Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
Dail Éireann — 2022-05-17
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

Deputy Boyd Barrett again chose his words carefully. When he suggested that the timing was interesting the clear implication was that I was going there because of NATO and Finland's application to join it, which was not the case at all. Both countries offer significant insights and they are both members of the European Union, by the way. I hope there is no problem with visiting fellow member states of the European Union. They are not the Swedish establishment or the Finnish establishment; they are the elected governments of those countries.

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Sitting date: 2022-05-17