Seanad debates
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
2:00 am
Tom Clonan (Independent)
I apologise. He said, "what the f--- they're doing", but it reflects the barbarity and the vulgarity of the polity in which we inhabit.
My question for colleagues is this. When we go next year, as I presume many will, to the White House and when we apply for our visas to travel to the United States on political business, will our statements be audited and censored? Will I be banned from entering the United States for calling out the genocide and murder of children by forced starvation? We need to have a debate on this. We need to have the Tánaiste come to the House to fundamentally debate and reassess our relationship in foreign policy terms if that relationship implies an acceptance of censorship of us and our young people travelling on J1 visas. I apologise for the f word; I was quoting President Trump.
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