Derek McDowell (Labour)

I do not know whether the Soaps would agree with me or Senator Norris on this matter. One of the great things about DNA and paternity testing is that when a person is a citizen of a republic, ideas surrounding heredity are slightly less important than in a society based on aristocracy or breeding. It reminds me of the story about an English monarch who visited Ireland and, while touring the west of the country, was informed that a person remarkably similar to him was living in an isolated location and that he should visit him. The king visited the individual who turned out to be a dead ringer for him.