Brendan Ryan (Labour)

It is a speech and I will justify my right to make one. This is a fundamental issue whether Senator Callanan understands it or not. It is about ethics and what we understand to be right and wrong. I do not have a monopoly on this issue but the Houses of Oireachtas is the place where these matters should be decided and not on the basis of advice from civil servants to the Tánaiste to be broadcast on the airwaves without reference to the Oireachtas. That is the point I wanted to make, and I will continue to do so.