Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the scandalous jailing of five Rossport residents who have been in mortal fear of their lives and the lives of their families due to the imposition of a potentially lethal gas pipeline on their lands and who have done no wrong except to assert their right to be left in peace in their own homes. I call the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, to intervene urgently with Shell to ensure their immediate relief. This is utterly disgraceful. Those people should not be in jail.

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