Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

I have just listened to the Minister for two hours in a different forum today on the Defamation Bill during which he told us how hard put upon he was and all the terrible things that are being said about him now that he wants to reintroduce the offence of blasphemy. He said that he is regarded as a fundamentalist Catholic, an extreme right-winger, looking for votes, courting the Islamic community and all this. I never said any of those things about him.

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