Ned O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

"Abolition day" sounds like a farmer saying that he or she will kill a pig next week. We will have an abolition day because the Taoiseach wants to kill the Seanad. This is why I am contributing on the Bill, rehearsing old democratic institutions and discussing fascism, of which this country has some experience. I referred to it on Second Stage. A famous member of the Fine Gael Party stood up in the Dáil and pointed out that the Blackshirts were winning in Italy, the Brownshirts were winning in Germany and the Blueshirts would win in Ireland. The Government of the time needed to deal with that serious effort at subverting democracy. It also needed to deal with the subversion of the so-called IRA, which was collaborating with the Germans-----