Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I support the motion too. It is simply recognising the fact that, unfortunately, there was a mass slaughter of 1.5 million people going back 100 years. Unfortunately, our motion will not change things, but it is important to recognise when wrongdoing is done. There was absolutely wrongdoing on a mass scale. An overwhelming majority of a parliament that is representative of 28 independent states is voting strongly in favour of the motion. This is simply recognising the fact that absolute wrong was done. Whether it was done 100 years ago or today, it has the same validity as wrongdoing. We should mark such wrongdoing and condemn it.