David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I want to say this. This is the shape of things to come. Last week, we had a situation in which 78 amendments were tabled and 77 were ruled out. One was left as a fig leaf. That has never happened in my time in the Seanad. The next day, the Standing Orders of Seanad Éireann were suspended. The Committee of Selection was bypassed in an astonishing way. Those people who had spoken out were punished-----