Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I accept the Cathaoirleach's ruling but workers' rights are workers' right no matter where they are working.

Last week, following threats to republican families in south Armagh who have been forthright in their support for the PSNI and in their opposition to criminality, a booby-trap bomb was left close to the home of a local Sinn Féin leader, Frank McCabe. Francis McCabe junior, a good decent, hard-working man and a good neighbour, whose only offence is that he is from a republican family, was seriously injured. As the Leader will be aware, issues in the North, especially in the Border area, are generally seized upon by some politicians here to attack Sinn Féin but in this instance the Government seems to have been very quiet. This was a serious attack and an attempt to kill, and it was an attack on the peace process. As far as I can gather, the Government has been silent. Those involved are a small number of criminals who are believed to be responsible over the years for the killing of volunteer Keith Rogers, the beating to death of Paul Quinn, the murder of Garda Adrian Donohoe and the wounding of Michael Bellew recently. They have also threatened the lives of Conor Murphy, MP, and another republican family, the Carraghers.