Mary O'Rourke (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)

I do not wish to be a member of the e-mail address of prurience.ie. I never did and I never will. Prurience is an ugly characteristic that will extend from financial matters to sexual matters or to whatever one wishes. However, it is not a characteristic towards which I aspire, nor ever I did. It is an ugly thing in which to be involved. Equally, I believe this debate to be so bogus that it reminds me of Alice in Wonderland. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall and Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

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