James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Tomorrow, we will see the threats becoming real. In this House, we watched aghast as Boris Johnson and the Brexiteers prorogued parliament, when they suspended the people's assembly, denying that parliamentary procedure could take place. We watched in horror on 6 January 2021 when the Capitol rioters stormed Washington DC to stop the election results being ratified. We never thought we would see it in this House. We never thought we would see it in our own democracy. How apt it is that, on April Fools' Day, the people who say they want to have a serious debate waste yet another opportunity by spending an afternoon dealing with this sort of farce when serious issues consume us.

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