Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is promised legislation and it is in the programme for Government. I think the Ceann Comhairle will agree that what the Deputies did was no mean task. Having succeeded in that particular context, they then proceeded to hijack the Fianna Fáil Party. Now, they would appear to be set to hijack the Government and the Labour Party, everyone included. They are purporting to speak for the majority of people in the House. I want to refer to the consequences for two groups of people.

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