Sarah Harte: In defence of questions, however unsavoury

You need an honest exchange of views, however repugnant, at the very least to know what ‘the enemy’ is thinking

Independent Senator, Sharon Keogan, was ejected from an Oireachtas Committee meeting examining the Irish laws surrounding surrogacy for what some committee members termed her “bigoted, cold cruel comments”. Picture: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

A week is a long time in politics. 

So said the British Labour prime minister Harold Wilson in the mid-'60s and Independent Senator, Sharon Keogan, must surely agree.