Dáil debates
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Crime: Statements
2:50 pm
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Do not worry. I thank my colleagues for sharing their speaking time with me. I wish to put on record my shock at the manner in which this subject is being debated. Deputies on both sides - and we all know they are not on both sides at all; they are all on the same side - have sought not only to control this debate but to control the Judiciary and to somehow overturn a decision taken by a judge. I was gobsmacked that the contribution that referenced Deputy Paul Murphy was not ruled out of order. Yesterday I was very vigorously ruled out of order when I clearly was not. It seems that our new politics is more of the same: one rule for these people and another rule for us. If I can use my remaining minute, I would like to record-----
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