Brendan Ryan (Labour)

I accept fully that we must all be careful about what we say. However, for ten minutes or so in the Dáil yesterday, every democrat in the Oireachtas — I believe that represents all of us bar five — was firmly behind the Taoiseach. Let me say unequivocally that there is no comparison between someone who fiddles their taxes or takes bribes and someone who conspires to shoot in the back of the head a widow with ten children.