On last night's edition of "Tonight with Vincent Browne", Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn from the Sinn Féin movement did the State some service when he allowed the mask to slip to reveal the ugliness and vileness at the heart of the Sinn Féin and republican movement.

We are not discussing last night's television programme.

To say that somebody has a duty to kill an unarmed man who is trying to surrender when he is surrounded on a country road by armed gunmen, was an incredible statement which was compounded by the comparing of the current republican movement to the old IRA.

We are not discussing the content of television programmes.

I am looking for a debate on this matter.

The Senator should look at the history of his own party.

I will look at the history. Deputy Mac Lochlainn compared the old IRA to the-----

Has the Senator a question for the Leader?

I certainly have.

Some of the current members of the Senator's party-----

Commandant Tom Barry spent his life refuting allegations that the old IRA tried to kill Auxiliaries who were trying to surrender. He was absolutely scandalised by the mere allegation of it. Despite this, Deputy Mac Lochlainn is considering assault and murder a matter for pride.

Has the Senator a question for the Leader on the Order of Business?

I am looking for a debate on the Smithwick report. It would sicken all proper and true democrats to hear the words of a Sinn Féin spokesperson in this regard. There is no place, in my view-----

Keep politics out of this.

-----for the like of him in the other House or in any House or to be let near any parliament. That is my own view.

The people of Donegal would not agree with the Senator. At least he got elected to the Dáil.

We are not discussing television programmes or Members of the other House in this House.

I am looking for a debate on the vileness of it.

Senator Gilroy should take a run for the Dáil the next time.