Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On this very day last year, the House concluded statements on the report of the Committee on the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. That and all the work in between form an example of what we can achieve when the House works together. It is an example of how much more could be achieved if time in the House was better spent. Sinn Féin, however, does not change. To the ballot box and the Armalite, it has added the soap box and the no-confidence motion. Its stock in trade remains competitive anger and cultivated division. Devoid of ideas, its contribution to the Chamber can best be measured in decibels. It is no wonder that anyone expecting anything new of different from Deputy McDonald's leadership has already lost hope. I reject her politics of division. My politics is to deliver by working across parties, inside and outside the House. It is to work together.

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