Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Anthony Coughlan was laughed at that day but today what he has said has crystallised and come true. Government Deputies, by voting for this, are going to start the process of putting a debt on our backs and our children's backs that, most importantly, they did not get a mandate for. We were told that the European Union was set up to save democracy and to stop future wars. What has it done?

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