Death of Sir David Amess MP: Expressions of Sympathy
Dail Éireann — 2021-10-19
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Cathal Berry (IND), Kildare South

On behalf of the Regional Group, I echo the sentiments and attitudes expressed already and convey my deepest sympathies to David Amess's family and friends. The lesson I draw from how Sir David lived his parliamentary life is that it is perfectly okay to disagree with somebody while still maintaining a very professional and courteous relationship. Those two states are perfectly compatible and can coexist quite happily. There is probably a lesson in than that for all of us.
While I fully appreciate that the Amess family must be utterly devastated at the moment, I would like to think that, in the fullness of time, they will be able to draw some semblance of comfort from the fact that he died with his boots on, doing the job he loved surrounded by the people he loved, namely, his constituents. We should not amend our constituency practices. I believe that is what Sir David would have liked us to do, and that is the best way to respond and to honour his memory.

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Sitting date: 2021-10-19