Eoghan Harris (Independent)

The third group of people wearing balaclavas were a group of a dissident republicans who broke the windows of the Sinn Féin Northern Ireland Assembly Member, Daithí McKay, the other night. He had been standing up for Protestants who had been subjected to sectarian attacks.

The Limerick group has links with dissident republicans. The Shell to Sea campaign is infested, as I told Senator Norris last week, with them. Senator Norris is ridiculous. He should go on the Internet to check the Éirígí website to see who is running the Shell to Sea campaign.

Their spiritual first cousins in Northern Ireland are intimidating Sinn Féin Northern Ireland Assembly Members. That is a disgrace. I particularly call, as Senator O'Toole did, on the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív, and the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan, to stop conniving, going down on their knees and pleading with these people, as they did a few weeks ago in begging Maura Harrington to come off hunger strike. That kind of slumming with Sinn Féin or IRA people always ends in trouble. I predicted some time ago that Dr. Jerry Cowley would lose his seat if he connived with these people. I tell Senator Norris-----