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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
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Seanad, During the Order of Business, I said: I draw the attention of the House to the number of institutions in this country, including a number of hospitals, which have decided they will not display a crib this year. The reason they gave in the newspapers today is that they do not want to upset our non-Christian brethren. This is political correctness gone overboard...
It is an issue to which we should draw attention to make sure we do not go too far with political correctness. Before we know where we are, Santa Claus will also be banned because he is a derivative of St. Nicholas and, clearly, if Christmas is to be banned, we should not have Santa Claus either. It is an issue to which we should draw attention. |
