Brendan Ryan (Labour)

Recently I had the misfortune to hear an Oireachtas Member attempting to justify on the radio the assassination of a 79 year old man, who happened to be part of the British aristocracy, while on holidays in Sligo some years ago. While I am normally fairly well able to handle such comments, it was among the most repulsive things I have heard from an Oireachtas Member. On this matter I am in full support of the Taoiseach. Having observed what happened in Spain, we need to get absolute clarity. A political party in the State is using the dangling of further concessions on arms to keep itself in the political headlines and we need to see an end to that.