Dáil debates
Wednesday, 28 June 2006
Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed).
4:00 pm
Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
This reminds me of when F.E. Smith, later the first Earl of Birkenhead, made a lengthy legal submission to a judge. Half an hour into it, the judge said to Smith that he was still none the wiser for it. Smith replied, "Perhaps not the wiser, My Lord, but certainly much better educated".
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