I interrupt the Senator to call on Senator Shane Ross regarding the motion of which he has given me notice under Standing Order 29.
Request Under Standing Order 29.
I raise this as a matter of public urgency. On Sunday it is intended that the Provisional IRA will have a rally in Mullaghmore. It is with enormous disgust that I greet this extraordinary idea. They are holding the rally under the auspices of the H-Block committee. Whether we like it or not, it is a straightforward Provisional IRA march to a place where Lord Mountbatten and two children died. It is one of the most obscene, one of the most disgusting ideas I have come across. This is a matter of such urgent public importance that the Seanad should debate it for a considerable period of time and a message should go out from this House that we have nothing to do with this, that we are absolutely appalled by what is going to happen in Mullaghmore on Sunday.
The Senator is completely out of order and he knows that at this stage.
It is very important that the world press which on Monday morning will cover this rally should know that the Houses of the Oireachtas want nothing to do with this. I am disappointed that the Government did not ban it at the outset. The world press will cover this as a Provisional IRA rally on the graves of Lord Mountbatten and two children and the image of this country will be betrayed.
I have given careful consideration to the matter raised by Senator Ross. I do not consider it to be a matter contemplated by Standing Order 29 and I regret, therefore, that I have to rule it out of order.
It is highly offensive to the memory of those people who were murdered that this should happen.
You are completely out of order.