Fianna Fáil's Wille O'Dea has told his party they need to stop 'playing to the woke gallery'.
In the aftermath, Fianna Fáil TD Willie O’Dea tweeted his party “needs to get back to basics and abandon the Hate Speech Bill etc.”He also said the Government should focus on “housing, health and law and order and stop playing to the woke gallery”, adding they should ignore “the out of touch Greens and NGOs”.
“Is it the case that at one point, up until relatively recently, once you said something was liberal or progressive, people did say, ‘Where can I sign?’ “I think it’s not about abandoning the hate speech legislation because I do think that legislation needs to be updated,” he said.“There’s loads of reasons why the referendum was defeated.
Shane added the Government should turn its attention back to more pressing problems than the Constitution.