Tom Clonan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

In Ireland we celebrate difference in other categories of people. We celebrate it, support it and promote it. With our community it seems to be a singular exceptional case where it is seen almost exclusively as a deficit. The word burden has been used to me. Even in the wording of the care amendment, the bonds that exist between people, I do not know if that is an international phenomenon or if it is peculiarly Irish. Is it a post-colonial or post-Catholic thing? I do not know.