Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

The Senator might take as an example somebody who was guilty of disorderly conduct. If all the publicans in his village barred him for life as a consequence, would that be a proportionate or reasonable thing for them to do ten years later? Would they still be able to refuse the person admission because he had beaten up a barman in another pub down the road and tell him that he would never be served in the town again? We have to be reasonable. The risk must be something of substance, not speculative or mathematical, or, to use the phrase used yesterday, "asyntotic to the zero axis."