Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)

I am in favour not of the traditional Sinn Féin divide-and-conquer approach but of what the Minister of State is doing. I want to bring people together, le chéile, so we can have a language that is spoken and lived and in respect of which there is no differentiation. Nobody would scorn me today, as Deputy Tóibín has done, for entering the House to speak in support of Irish.

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