Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2022-06-16
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

-----and a very personal shot, which says a lot about the Deputy and the character of the kind of person he is. It is particularly strange coming from him because he was prosecuted. He abused and mistreated a member of An Garda Síochána. He was prosecuted for that and found guilty. He got away without a conviction because of his age at the time but he was actually prosecuted. He was arrested. That is what happened to him. There are a huge number of convicted criminals in his party and in the wider republican family, whether they be tax dodgers like Slab Murphy, a good republican according to Deputy McDonald - a good republican, a tax dodger - or people who have been convicted for murder. We know what his party's attitude is to rape and paedophiles and what it has done in that regard. The Deputy's cheap shots say a lot more about him than they do about me.

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Sitting date: 2022-06-16