Martin Mansergh (Tipperary South, Fianna Fail)

When I started monitoring this debate last night, Deputy Varadkar was in the middle of mangling Irish history. If Edmund Burke ever said or wrote what has been attributed to him — "it is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph" — it was not in College Green or the Irish House of Commons, because he was never a member of it.

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