David Norris (Independent)

I commend the committee and the Minister on the suggestion about the age of consent of 16. This was a forward-looking, realistic and courageous thing to do. I despise the Opposition for the ignorant, disgusting and hypocritical way it behaved. I wish to serve notice on it that if it tries these kinds of prurient and hypocritical tactics again, it will get the same dose it got when it tried the same tactics when the law decriminalising homosexuality was introduced by a decent Minister from the Fianna Fáil Party, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.