Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

For a member of Fine Gael to ridicule a Member of the House for quoting a Frenchman represents a new low in parliamentary politics in this House. That is not the direction we should be going.

There is a separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution, the Legislature, the Judiciary and the Presidency. It is a very dangerous precedent to attempt to muddy the waters between the three pillars——

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