David Norris (Independent)

The British Cabinet gave the answer to that one when it clearly stated it is not possible to have a little bit of discrimination. It would have been much better had Senator Mansergh asked, as I now ask the Leader, to consider this situation in Ireland, where despite his paeans of the past 25 years, his Government needed to be pushed, kicking and screaming, into this area. Let us have a discussion of the motion in my name asking us to revise the exemption by all the churches, including mine — the Church of Ireland — and the Roman Catholic Church, from the operations of the equality legislation. That was done before the publication of the Ferns Report. We now know what the leaders of the church were doing in moving priests around so they could continue to molest children——