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

Deputy Clare Daly said that she probably did not agree with anything else the late Peter Sutherland said but she might be pleasantly surprised.

He was a great champion of human rights, he was a great champion of the refugees, and outspoken about it, and he was a great champion of levelling the playing pitch in so far as he could at European level and global level, and he did that.

I happen to be one of the people who was around in 1983. I was a very young child at the time, of course, as the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will probably know.

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