Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

Deputy Barrett is right. It is dangerous, premature and disingenuous to the public to be getting ourselves into a situation as if there was some major threat facing us immediately. The Council's final wording will not be available until December. To put it mildly, anyone getting into a twist would be premature. Deputy Ó Snodaigh asked whether we had the moral backbone to face the Germans.

See this speech in context