asked the Taoiseach if he is in a position to indicate whether there has been, or is likely to be, any improvement in the present position in relation to Ireland and the United Nations Organisation.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - United Nations Organisation.
The matter of the application of Ireland and a number of other nations for membership of the United Nations Organisation is at present under consideration at the meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation in Paris. I am not in a position to state what is likely to be the outcome, or to forecast the decision, of the United Nations Organisation.
asked the Taoiseach if, in the event of Ireland gaining admission to the United Nations Organisation, the Government will seek to have the injustice of Partition brought to the attention of that assembly and of the world.
Yes. The Deputy may rest assured that the Government will miss no opportunity of seeking to undo the unnatural division of our country. One immediate task will be to unmask the hypocritical humbug embodied in the phrase to which much currency has recently been given that "Ulster must not be coerced." The British Parliament, by the passing of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, coerced into the jurisdiction of the Parliament created by that Act at least two whole counties and other homogeneous areas in which there was a clear majority who strenuously objected to that coercion. A majority in those counties and areas and a large minority in other areas are still being coerced into a system repugnant to them.