Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

Newswires are suggesting today that the men jailed for obstructing work on the Shell pipeline will face a very long prison sentence if they refuse to purge their contempt of court. I ask the Government not to act likePontius Pilate and to ensure that a mediation process is put in place. One will remember what happened on foot of the imprisonments and executions after Easter 1916.

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