Derek McDowell (Labour)

——what it is like to live beside a family from hell and for those constituents to say they must leave their neighbourhood because there are people in it who are set on making their lives a misery. That is very wrong. Such actions do not have to amount to criminal behaviour for the reasons I mentioned. I gave the Senator examples. None of those actions would constitute a crime. If a neighbour were to say, on a constant basis, to guests entering the Senator's house that he or she disapproved of his lifestyle or X, Y or Z , that could be the last straw for a person of a less robust character or a more delicate disposition than the Senator, and such a person could say that he or she could not take any more of it.

The Senator may remember that he made a reference the other day to my going to open the Outhouse service in Capel Street. However, he may not know that as I left those premises, three people who effectively had stalked the meeting, approached me on the street and one of them, who had a toddler in arms, came right up me and screamed in my face "Why do you want to take our children and give them to homosexuals?"