Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

It is unfortunate that when one cuts through the rhetoric and talks about the reality of the implications of what Sinn Féin has to say in this House and in the Lower House, people do not like it. It is grand when one is talking about theory. The reality is exactly as I have explained it. If Sinn Féin wishes to vote against this measure, as it did in the Lower House, it is basically saying it favours this State becoming a safe haven for those who engage in murder, fraud-----