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Mon 09 Sep 2007Disquiet over German ambassador's remarks
The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed it expressed its strong disquiet to the German ambassador for remarks he made to a group of visiting German industrialists in which he described Ireland as a "coarse place" where hospital waiting lists were chaotic and everyone drove '06 and '07 cars.
The department's secretary general, Dermot Gallagher, telephoned the ambassador, Christian Pauls, last week and told him the unscripted comments he made on September 7th were "misinformed and inaccurate".
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