Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am setting the context for the detail that is in the Bill. We know there will be an abolition of prison sentences for situations that are not even arising. This is "The Truman Show". The Government is imagining that things are happening which are not. It is ignoring things that are happening and not addressing them. That is why neither the Minister nor the Minister of State opposite can even look the speaker in the eye. It is very simple. A 92 year old man was in the EU Parliament on Wednesday morning who was one a few people who removed the Nazi flag in the final days of the German occupation of Greece in the Second World War. He spoke to the point about what is happening this week in the so-called partnership, family and community of Europe.

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