I will be guided by the Clerk of the Dáil as to whether due process has been followed by the Ceann Comhairle since December 2024. The advice that was issued was that she did follow due process. For that reason, I support her in her office. I was elected to the House to work on behalf of the constituents of Meath East, to find and provide solutions to the serious challenges facing Ireland and her people, and I was happy to contribute to the programme for Government to that end. In December, I received a dignity and respect document from the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, as I am sure did all colleagues. In effect, what I have experienced in the past four months has been nothing other than an attempt to bully and harass by way of name calling, shouting, body language and references to lackeys, underlings, lads and, to top it all today, a reference to being intellectually inferior. How dare Members on that side of the House do so?

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All of that makes me question the basic functioning of this Dáil. On each occasion there has been an ignoring of the requests of the Ceann Comhairle and what is set out in the dignity and respect document, which represents the very basic foundation of how we are to behave in the House, this behaviour happened when children were in the Gallery. The word that was shouted was "shame". Well, have a look at where the shame should lie.

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