Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No. I am talking about the abolition date. After that day, we will not be able to talk about these things if the Seanad is abolished. People need to be aware of the consequences of what they are doing.

Within the last few weeks, I spoke about visiting Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, which is the museum dedicated to the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. One of the first plaques one sees there highlighting the issues that arose during the terrible era of the Holocaust, shows how the Nazis dismantled the Reichstag when they came to power. I am not comparing this Government to the Nazis but I am saying that once one starts to dismantle democracy, one is taking a road without knowing where it will lead. In weighing up all these issues, we need to be well advised that talking about an abolition day is not the direction in which we should be going.

As Senator Zappone said, many amendments have been ruled out of order. Like others, I received a letter stating that my amendments have been ruled out of order.