Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Senators Marshall and Lawlor and I look forward to working with them. Senator Marshall represents one of the traditions in the North, namely, the farming tradition, and he will have a baptism of fire as we will be having a Brexit debate a little later.

I condemn the comments of John Taylor. Some people said it was underlying racism but it was actually racism.His comment was "typical Indian" and that it would not be something that a native Irish Prime Minister would do. Leo Varadkar is a native Irish Prime Minister. It is racism and I hope we hear condemnation of it from the House of Lords.