The Tánaiste said, 'I shudder to think of the day when you would ever be in authority'.
Paul Murphy asked Minister Martin about an upcoming consultative forum on Irish neutrality and defence policy.
“You talk about freedom of speech and so on in Tunisia; you’re nowhere near that. I’m not suggesting it. “They should not be allowed [to] speak; if there’s up to 50 or 60 speakers, if one or two have views that are contrary then they should not speak.“And I shudder to think of the day when you would ever be in authority because by God would you put the jackboot onto people who might have views different to you.”Richard Boyd Barrett heckled that this was a “shocking statement” and Deputy Murphy asked the Tánaiste to withdraw the remark.
He added that Deputy Murphy had “just made an assertion that certain people should not be on a platform”, to which the Dublin South-West TD told him to, “Stop lying about what we said.”
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