Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

I will tell the House what an obscenity is. An obscenity is to see a man with an oxygen tank outside the doors of his Parliament, pleading to get some protection in his old age. It is a woman on a zimmerframe, as we all saw today. That is what a real obscenity is and that is what Fianna Fáil, the Green Party and the Progressive Democrats are presiding over. I condemn them and urge anyone with a conscience to vote with this side of the House.

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