Fianna Fáil TDs say we should not trust the Oireachtas to legislate

Tolerance for listening to someone who holds the opposite view to your own on abortion depends, I find, on the day, the hour and the speaker, writes Alison O'Connor.

But if there is one thing worthy of zero tolerance it is the elected politicians in our national parliament who say, in essence, that the public would be mad to trust them.

We had a number of examples of that in the Dáil this week during the debate on the bill to allow the holding of the abortion referendum which passed, happily, by 97 votes to 27 on Wednesday night.