Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

Will the Government condemn what can only be described as Francoist repression on the part of the Spanish state against the people of Catalonia where there has been an effective occupation by the Spanish state police with the arrest of upwards of 20 government officials, the seizure of ballot boxes, ballot papers and more than 100,000 elections posters, the opening of post and the effective suspension of Catalan regional autonomy the other day?

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