Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

On a point of order, I want to raise my disquiet at the fact that people who were legitimately giving voice to what I believe is the widespread anger at the genocide and also the inaction of the Government, and the kind of weasel words we heard from the Minister, have all been taken from the Visitors Gallery. This is a democracy. This is a matter of absolute urgency. We are witnessing in real time a genocide play out and we have a Government that wants to give itself a collective pat on the back while sitting on its hands. The views expressed in the Gallery - that is where it is at. We need that level of anger directed at the Government because it is on some kind of vanity trip in which it does not recognise the reality of what is going on.

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