Brendan Ryan (Labour)

Let us deal with the fact that democracy has not worked the way our betters thought it should and move on from there. Some 82% of working class French people voted "No" according to one study that was done. There is an issue there, not just about giving people lectures about how they should understand what is good for them but about listening to people's genuine fears and moving on from there. It would be useful to have a repetition of the recent debate we had on the implications of those votes some time in the autumn, even if we have to meet on a Friday so as to ensure the return of the MEPs involved. This would provide the debate with a broader view of the European responses to it, a number of which are quite illiberal.

We should hold a good and serious debate on the Morris tribunal reports. Over the years I have raised issues about the Garda and unlike afamous occasion when I mentioned that my children had to buy their own toilet paper in school and the then Minister for Education took it extremely seriously——