Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2022-10-04
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

I thank the Deputy for her contribution. When George Orwell wrote his great novel, 1984 , he talked about the party’s emphasis on doublethink. Describing it, he explains that party members have “to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them”. Most people who have read 1984 took it as a warning but the Deputy’s party seems to be taking it as some sort of instruction manual.

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Sitting date: 2022-10-04