Seanad debates

Thursday, 2 February 2012

10:30 am

Photo of Rónán MullenRónán Mullen (Independent)

I am asking the Leader and the deputy leader whether they agree with me. I have written to Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, who is Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on Education and Skills, and I have had a courteous response from him. He says he agrees with the report, which surprises me, although he disagrees with that statement. He makes the excuse that the statement is ironic. At one level it certainly is ironic. Would the Leader and deputy leader agree that if such a recommendation were made about gay people - and similar sentiments were expressed about Jews and communists in the past - or about members of the Anglican Communion, there would be outrage? Would they agree with me that the motion should not have made it on to the clár of the Labour Party conference and now that it is there that it deserves to be condemned in the roundest terms by participants at the conference?

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