Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

For example, if a person with a wife and children dies without making a will, his wife is entitled to two thirds of his property and the children to one. If we proposed to change property law to change those fractions to half and half, three quarters and a quarter or 100% to nothing, everybody could understand the proposal. It is a simple aspect of land law just as this is a simple and direct aspect of citizenship law. That is the reality.

The sincerity of a person's case or the sincerity of his attachment to the case he is making can be judged by the quality of the argument he or she puts forward to support it. Judging by the quality of the arguments put forward by the Opposition, I sincerely doubt their sincerity. The first artillery piece rolled out was the Good Friday Agreement, but the British Government soon put an end to that.

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