The Taoiseach says Fianna Fail is still committed to a United Ireland.
Yesterday, Micheal Martin said a border poll would not be on the government's agenda for the next five years.
But speaking at the McGill Summer School this afternoon, the Taoiseach says he isn't straying from a core Fianna Fail policy.
He says to suggest otherwise is 'nonsense'.
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"That has always been its position, but it didn't stop Seán Lemass from meeting Terrance O'Neill, or indeed Bertie Aherne from that historic breakthrough with Tony Blair.
"So I think it's a very false - and frankly ill informed - position to adopt, that putting forward a shared island agenda within the context of the Good Friday Agreement has somehow strayed from Fianna Fáil policy"
