David Norris (Independent)

I just wonder whether the pigs have started to run the farm. It appears that we are in a chaotic situation.

I will end on a serious note and support strongly my friend and colleague, Senator Bacik. We fought against the forced combination of some organisations that fought for human rights. We fought against the extinction of the Combat Poverty Agency. We have a way to go in terms of racism. Holding the debate that the Senator called for would be excellent. I hope the Government side allows it.

On that note, I pass my sympathy to the people in Toulouse, in particular to the family that lost a father and two children, leaving a wife and one child. I cannot begin to imagine that woman's feelings. It appears that there was a racist and anti-semitic motive. We in Europe should be utterly disgusted by such acts and show our contempt.