Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail)

I accept the Senator may not wish to hear this but I am going to proceed in any event. I wish, on the record of this House, to lodge a formal complaint about the behaviour of the Minister of State yesterday evening. I refer to the fact that a colleague of mine was accosted in the Chamber during a vote on the legislation. If the Minister of State did not like what was being said, that is fine. However, I would have thought the Minister of State would not be so thin-skinned. What occurred yesterday evening showed complete disregard and disrespect for an elected Member of this House who is a colleague of mine. What happened was extremely serious and I would not like to see a recurrence of it. I will not even refer to the contribution that was made and the script - written by God knows who - that was read into the record.