Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----and criminalises those who are brave enough to serve the public interest and expose the abuses of power.

The Taoiseach has said in this House that whistleblowers should be respected and protected. Will he raise this point with President Obama and ask him to show Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden and others the respect they deserve rather than treating them as criminals for telling the truth?

I also ask the Taoiseach to raise the drone programme with President Obama. It is terror of the worst kind. People are asleep in their homes and do not know the minute or the hour when a missile launched by a drone could strike their house and kill them. It is madness. Will the Taoiseach raise that issue with President Obama?

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