Joe O'Toole (Independent)

I fully and completely support the position of the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the views she expressed earlier. She outlined the only reasonable, sensible and sustainable position one can adopt. In a sense, we are getting an easy ride in that we are able to adopt this approach. It would be wrong to try to impose whatever particular values we hold on everybody else. Our role is to protect ourselves and to safeguard our constitutional provisions which we have a right to ensure are expressed properly. The Minister's proposals are perfectly in keeping with these constraints. Her position will find support among the majority of people.