Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I have no problem with so-called pinkos or their views. If one had an allergy to pinkos, one would never read a newspaper in this country. However, I have a slight degree of contempt for that class of the community who have abstracted themselves to a moral plain higher than the one rest of us are on, who know a moral issue 1,000 miles away but who regard profits, employment and risk taking as profane matters which are below their moral radar and of concern to lesser people. There are many examples of that in the commentariat.