For today's vote on the Ceann Comhairle to be warranted, one would have imagined that she would have done something wrong last week. I was sitting in this seat, close to the Ceann Comhairle - the only other person in front was the Taoiseach - so I had the benefit of hearing the Chief Whip, the Taoiseach in his efforts to try to be heard and the Ceann Comhairle throughout all of it. The only people who could not hear what the Ceann Comhairle was saying were the people who were roaring and shouting at her in a scene that resembled something in Harcourt Street at 3 o'clock or 4 o'clock in the morning. Fair play to you, lads. She was right. You were an absolute, total and utter disgrace - grown men for the most part, roaring and shouting at a constitutional officer. Of course, they never wanted her so it is no surprise that they tabled a motion of no confidence in her. This is playing out the election right from the start. We had all of the difficulties after the election trying to form a Government. Some people wanted in, some people did not really want to be in and some people felt being in opposition was the most comfortable place they could find. Then we had the Leader of the Opposition saying that this was going to be opposition on all fronts right from the get-go. The people who most disappoint in this are the Labour Party.

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Just let me finish.

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You had a good run last week. Of all parties, Labour should remember what was done to its former leader, Joan Burton, another woman who held a constitutional officer position and who herself had to confront behaviour not too dissimilar from what we saw-----

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Deputy Devine will have her chance in a minute. It was not too dissimilar from what happened in this Chamber last week. All our parties are trying to encourage women into politics, but all of a sudden, the united leader of the Opposition has emerged and the Labour Party just joined in as a kind of silent little lamb. In the process of doing that-----

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Deputy Bacik today gave a great oration-----

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-----about the importance of Ireland having a clear position with regard to trade and our position in the world. What have the Labour Party and other parties in here done? They have withdrawn pairs. Today's vote was always inevitable-----

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-----because they could not accept the reality that a Government had been formed and we wanted to get on and govern. The main party opposite could never accept that-----

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-----and now we have the two centre-left parties just coming along like mud flaps.

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Less patronising now.

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