Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail)

The media are correct to look for probity in public life but that attitude must apply elsewhere also. They cannot be selective in how they do this. I would like to see a debate on this serious problem. The Italian mafia grew from the resistance movement in Italy and the Eastern bloc mafia grew from the KGB. A significant element of the paramilitary republican movement is involved in this type of activity, as are those on the loyalist side. Where people are so involved it needs to be highlighted and confronted by both the political establishment and the forces of the State.