Pat O'Neill (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I agree with Senator Darragh O'Brien that what happened at Fingal County Council is an attack on democracy. Councillors in Kilkenny had to face the same thing recently in regard to a central access scheme. When they left the chamber after debating the issue, they were verbally assaulted and attacked, and some of them actually had to get into cars to be escorted from the council premises.

With regard to the issue Senator O'Brien raised about pensions, I would like to remind him what party caused the crash in this country-----