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Two charming young women approached me and lobbied me about this matter because they both have Down's syndrome children with a reasonably high IQ.

— David Norris

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It does not say much for a person's morality if he is prepared to sacrifice what he believes in for a job.

Will he listen to the voice of the people, this wonderful democrat, this absolute democrat who would not recognise democracy if it came up and puked in his face?

If I were a woman I would not be reassured by being told the legislators are apparently not concerned with the health of a woman. They should be.

The Minister of State should stop saying "with respect". He and his Government have no respect at all for this House.

I believe that at some stage some citizen across Europe will drop a match on the floor and the whole bloody thing will go up, and it cannot come soon enough as far as I am concerned.

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