Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

I know the Minister is an historian and I am not. However, I think that was the high point of English republicanism. Last weekend when Deputy Noel Dempsey invoked Cromwell, I think it was as one republican party to another on our sister island. I felt the hand of history was hovering over Deputy Dempsey and it might have given him a clout at any point.

Is the Minister serious, a scientific report as opposed to popularism and popular discussion among the unscientific and uneducated in the House? On what planet is the Minister living? Is he afraid? Has he read the report?

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