Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have spoken to the amendments concerned with protests outside the Oireachtas, a situation which is protected very clearly within the Bill. There is a dark irony to an argument around allowing people freedoms being made from the perspective of a tradition that has deprived people, including women and gay men and women, of freedoms in our country and did so successfully for a very long time. There is also a dark irony to being lectured by individuals from that tradition on the need to respect people's freedoms.

This is only the second time I have been described as a Nazi and a fascist. The first was time I was described in that way was when Deputy Mattie McGrath felt I should be put in front of a Nuremberg-style trial for rolling out the Covid 19 vaccines.