Ned O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I continue to believe that I am a Catholic, however. She is a committed Catholic and has the courage to call it as it is: an empire of misogyny. What a thing to say in the year we are in today. I will not concern myself with the affairs of the Catholic church but I congratulate the former President, Mary McAleese, who has uttered her views strongly and in a way that everyone understands. One would not have to go to the Oxford dictionary to understand what she says, and I commend her on that too.

The day is gone when the women of Ireland are stereotyped as Mrs. Doyle making tea and sandwiches at the meetings.