Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I want to make it clear that, as far as I am concerned, the one thing that unites the people who will vote to guillotine this Bill today is they are the same people who went to the Irish people and asked them to abolish this Chamber. The one thing about all the Members of the Oireachtas of those parties who voted for that legislation is the great majority of them knew it was a terrible mistake to attempt to abolish this Chamber but like sheep they went towards the cliff-----