Warm bed row
A long exchange followed over Senator Humphreys’ accusation that Fianna Fáil was in a “warm bed” with Fine Gael, with Senator Wilson demanding a withdrawal and both sides trading barbed remarks under the Chair’s repeated interventions.
There are no points of order on the Order of Business.
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It is the dark corners operating.
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I point out to Senator Humphreys that this House does not operate in a cloak-and-dagger style.
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That may happen in the Lower House among some parties.
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It is not in order to accuse a Member of the Lower House who is not a Member of this House of being in cahoots.
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I will not allow the name of a party colleague of mine from the Lower House-----
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-----to be brought into disrepute here by Senator Humphreys.
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The bed is still warm from Senator Humphreys, who is not long out of it with Fine Gael.
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To accuse Fianna Fáil of being in conspiracy with Fine Gael and to accuse a Member of the Lower House and of my party of being in conspiracy, and some sort of a conspiracy being brought into this House, will not be stood for by my party, and I want Senator Humphreys to withdraw it.