I will be extremely careful. The claims made by the Together for Safety group were suggestive of the fact that Ms Fitzgibbon and her group had knowledge and intent in relation to when abortions would be taking place in Limerick. That was not true and the Irish Independent has since corrected the article online. It seems to me that the Together for Safety group, the Irish Independent and the journalist Ellen Coyne all owe Ms Fitzgibbon and her group an apology for the allegation that was made and the way it was repo…

It is also our job as legislators to highlight unfairness, untruth and manipulation, whether in politics, by politicians or by the media. This is our forum to call for fairness for all sides. I have done so and I ask others to reflect on what I have said.

You should say a lot more. You should start with an apology for the untruths you passed on in the House.

Wherever the truth comes from, let us welcome it.

Tell the truth.

I am defending myself since the Cathaoirleach will not.

What about Sinn Féin?

What about Sinn Féin killing people and apologising for murder or never apologising for murder?

If everybody told the truth, there would not be a problem.

Sinn Féin never apologises. That is the point.

Understood. To correct Senator O'Loughlin, it is legislation.

It is a nice time to be travelling.

We are not there yet.

I hope we will not see post-Covid grade inflation in them.

Senator O'Loughlin rightly corrected me on the provenance of the Bill. The suggestion was made I was heckling her but I was merely offering a correction and that the piece in question is legislation as opposed to a motion. Being so flawed and passing Committee Stage, this is much more serious, I am afraid. If it was just a motion, things would not be so bad. I was not heckling the Senator. I was just offering a correction.

We could all do with a bit of that.

I too welcome the visitors in the Gallery. Of course, I do not agree with them or with what they seek but it is politicians who should primarily be held responsible for bringing forward legislation that is neither constitutional nor necessary and for doing so on the basis of claims about decent, harmless people that we already know to be very untrue. It is about honesty. There are deeply held feelings on both sides of the abortion debate. I do not need to rehearse them here. One third of the electorate voted to rec…

I am asking people to be very careful about taking claims and using them for political purposes, claims that may in fact be fully mendacious and untruthful, and may be lies. If they are true, then there is a breach of personal data that must be investigated. It is not those people who are witnessing to the dignity of the unborn outside the clinics who need to be investigated-----

I would not want to say that-----

Absolutely.