Foreign Policy
Dail Éireann — 2023-06-15
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

No, I was not worked up at all. I just think it is shocking how you guys operate, how the Deputies operate, first, in terms of their intolerance of a wide variety of views and debate. I instinctively felt this was how they were going to approach this. This is a genuine debate. There is a wide range of speakers with different perspectives, including people working in Irish universities and at different forums. The first thing the Deputies tried to do was to attack the chairperson some weeks ago. There was a personalisation of this. It was the old story of let us-----

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Sitting date: 2023-06-15