Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is absolutely fascinating. This seems to be the greatest example of confusion I have ever come across, whether it is confusion of language or cognition. Last week when I was here, some of us rose to speak about the Magdalen redress programme and we were told we were being overly compassionate and emotional and losing our heads. I deeply resented that. One cannot feel profoundly unless one thinks profoundly. Most of us were bringing some kind of cognition to the table. The greatest emotional speech ever made on this came from the Taoiseach two years ago and there has not yet been a bullet point plan for the issue.

Senator Gilroy, if he does not mind me saying so, is probably the greatest visual aid I have come across for the confusion. Last week he told us we were wilfully misreading the Bill. He is now wilfully standing behind the goalkeeper. I am more confused by his stance, his non-stance or his re-stance, as it were, than I am by anything else. If the Bill is everything the Minister of State says it is, why are my two amendments considered out of order in so far as they are-----