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

No. I understand that the Business Committee has agreed to discuss scheduling a debate on the Catalan referendum at Thursday's meeting, with the debate to be held next week. That is too late. The referendum took place on Sunday. There were quite unprecedented scenes of police repression, attempts to shut down a referendum which was taking place, the stealing of ballot boxes and so on. Up to 1,000 people were injured. This was ordered by the Rajoy government. A general strike is taking place today in protest against those measures. We should have a debate this week. It does not have to be today. It can be tomorrow morning or Thursday morning. The Government should have the opportunity to clearly condemn the violence that took place, which was ordered by the sister party of Fine Gael in Spain.

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