Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We will need to deliberate more on the implications after we receive the response from Galway County Council. We may take the option of referring it to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht to examine its implications. Is that agreed? Agreed.

The next petition is P00030/12 from Mr. Des Keane on the cases of those convicted of capital murder whose death sentences have been commuted by the President with the result that this small group of prisoners has no redress to parole or remission. We have received correspondence from the private secretary of the Minister for Justice and Equality advising us of a Supreme Court case to be decided by the summer. I recommend to the committee that we defer consideration of this petition until the Supreme Court decision has been made. We should correspond to the petitioner conveying our regret at the delays in the courts system and that we will have to wait until the decision is made.