Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I responded a second time to the Deputy. He still insists on standing up. If we are not going to respect each other, why should I respond? An assessment report was done as a result of representations made by a group to the Irish Human Rights Commission. That assessment report has just been received. Deputy Costello now asks about other issues which are outside the ambit of the assessment report, even though the Irish Human Rights Commission had an opportunity to examine this for three months-----

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