Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I think so. I think The Gathering has welcomed one person who seems to have landed in the wrong country.

I have asked my constituent and colleague in Northern Ireland, Dr. Jeff Dudgeon, to take up with Richard Haass and Dr. Meghan O'Sullivan who are currently investigating the causes of unrest and distress in Northern Ireland, the way the Taoiseach treats my Northern Ireland constituents. This causes trouble on the streets. We have raised the issue repeatedly here, but nothing has come back from the Taoiseach. He crudely scheduled a meeting of the North-South Inter-Parliamentary Association on the same day he was abolishing the votes of my constituents in Northern Ireland. I hope Mr. Haass gets a hearing from the Taoiseach because he does not seem to want to talk to anybody else. He has carried on in a disgraceful manner and that issue will be taken up. People in Northern Ireland do not like the way this partitionist Taoiseach and his hangers-on in the PR industry treat that province.