Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail)

Like my colleagues, I welcome our distinguished visitors to the House. I could not help but reflect on what Senator Norris had to say. When he talked about the blather of the war, I was thinking about all the homosexuals who were incarcerated in concentration camps. The treaty and the whole European Union project are about ensuring that such an event would never happen again.

I did not defend anything Mr. Buttiglioni said. If anything was wrong about that affair it was the manner in which then European Parliament disgraced itself in the way in which it treated a man who had his own personal religious views. While we may talk about tolerance and equality, that was an example of what can happen with the socio-liberal view that now seems so widespread in mainstream Europe.