David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am now completely confused. The Minister of State, having stalwartly maintained that the Government would not introduce quantity licensing, went off on a tangent about Senator Barrett's ideological views on laissez-faire economics and all the rest of it. If Senator Barrett has those views, I certainly do not share them. The Minister of State then appeared to be making an argument for quantity licensing, having said he recognised the fact it was illegal. I do not know what else he could have been doing except making that argument. The record of the House will show he was at least tending in that direction. I am left completely bemused.