Foreign Conflicts
Dail Éireann — 2025-04-01
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Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (SF), Cork South-Central

I appreciate that. If it were as simple as whether it is a Government or Opposition Bill, this might be a less contentious debate, but the reality is that there is a difference in substance, one that has never really been justified. I do not know whether the Tánaiste wants to take the opportunity to justify the distinction between goods and services at this juncture.
I invite the Tánaiste to remark on the scenes outside the Dáil yesterday involving Mothers Against Genocide and particularly on what is reported to have occurred afterwards, namely, strip-searching and, in one instance, cavity-searching. I am aware that a complaint has gone to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. It is very worrying and I invite the Tánaiste’s comments on it because it is something we do not want to see.

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Sitting date: 2025-04-01