This has to be Leo's worst statement, very upsetting for vulnerable children & adults. Time for change

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https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41143480.html

Very upsetting to read this. What has his party done to fund services for vulnerable children & adults with intellectual disabilities. This is the same man who is trying to rush in hate speech laws..

I like the irony of that. Hoist upon his own petard. Though I doubt he meant to cause offence tbh.

It's a thoughtless comment but I agree with PP that it's unlikely he meant offence by it.

Many people that will fall foul or the hate speech act will also not mean to cause offence either.. At the end of the day if you're born a man you're a man or born a woman you are a woman. To say a man is a man is the truth it is not offensive, it is scientific fact.
Barbie Kardashian for instance is a man & always will be but he's been given women's privileges because he "thinks" he's a women..

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/tanaiste-suggests-healy-raes-go-with-the-airy-fairies-was-homophobic-remark-but-kerry-td-refuses-to-apologise/41478490.html

The video of leo & Mícheál Healy Rae in the Dáil here is hilarious! I find the slow learners comment much more offensive.

Some people will take offence at literally anything.

There’s your bag, are you blind?
How dare you, my friend has a retinal detachment.

He’s a pain in the arse.
How dare you, I broke my coccyx last year.

It’s cold today, my fingers are freezing. How dare you, I have Raynaud’s.

etc etc etc

He’s a misogynistic, caught in his own little bubble disgrace,

@VaddaABeetch yep, there is no defending the slow learners slur..

If he prepared that line with his advisers can't they all be arrested for Kate speech under the new law. At the risk of being offensive to ignorant wankers, what an ignorant wanker.

Ha ha hate speech not Kate speech

🤣 We'll have to rely on Matt for the Kate speech! After all he knows all the ins & outs of the monarchy as he has proved..

Down with this sort of Kate Speech! It will rank with Treason soon in Blighty.