Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

Not one of them would assert the negative but they will cast doubts about my assertion of the positive. That is as it may be.

I wish to make one last point before I trespass too much on the patience of the House. There are two poles of extreme in all of this, the right wing, conservative, reactionary view that a homogeneous Irish society with pale skins, similar accents and so on is the desirable state of affairs——