Gabrielle McFadden (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I concur with the sentiments expressed earlier by Senator Craughwell. What happened at the weekend falls far below the standard expected of anybody in elected office. In recent years Mr. Austin Stack has been engaged in a long-running battle to find out what happened to his father. As everybody knows, Deputy Adams facilitated a meeting in 2013, and he was taken to that meeting in a blacked-out van, which was ridiculous in 2013.At the time, Austin was told that the perpetrators of that attack on his father were still alive and they had been disciplined. I use inverted commas - as youngster do - on the word "discipline" because if the discipline is anything like the discipline our colleague received at the weekend than I am not inspired. Perhaps by way of making a proper apology to the Stack family for what happened at the weekend, our Sinn Féin colleagues in the House and in the Dáil might encourage their colleagues in the IRA to actually help the Stack family to find out exactly what happened to their father, and perhaps bring the perpetrators to justice?