Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the jailing of five small landholders and residents in north Mayo at the behest of the Shell corporation; the fact that Shell is allowed to lay a pipeline for raw natural gas without the risk assessment report on the project being published and debated, in advance of the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources signs any consent order and before a comprehensive hearing on all the substantive issues in the High Court scheduled for the autumn; the need to debate why Corrib gas, a major natural resource off the west coast, should be handed over to a multinational corporation with not a penny in royalties for the people. That is absolutely disgraceful.

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