David Norris (Independent)

I thank Senator Ross for sharing time. As I did on yesterday's Order of Business, I commend the Taoiseach. Like Senator Ross, I come from a different background to some Members of the House. I was formerly a southern Unionist, I am Church of Ireland, I am not republican and I am a Nationalist only in so far as I love this country.

I commend the Taoiseach because he behaved in a manly, courageous and courteous way in dealing with the Reverend Ian Paisley who, I will limit myself to saying, is a rather difficult political entity.