Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

That includes all Deputies on all sides of the House and, if I may take the freedom to say so, Deputy Ó Snodaigh. There is no division. We want to put the gang bosses behind bars. We are horrified on this side of the House at the frequency of resort to extreme violence and the number of fatalities we have seen in recent years. I do not like the word "scum" but these people are the scum of the earth. We are at one in this House in wanting to take them off our streets but that is not the issue here. The Minister quoted a number of Deputies on this side of the House. We are prepared to take any measures within the law. Some of us did not envisage standing the criminal justice system on its head to do so.

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