Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

In addition to examining whether lessons can be learned or future mistakes avoided, will the Cabinet committee on social inclusion and drugs take stock, given the result of the French referendum on the EU constitution, of the problems in France where rioting has occurred for the past 13 nights? Some 1,200 people are in custody in France, many of them on the basis of social exclusion as they would see it. Perhaps the committee needs to meet more often, given that its social inclusion remit does not appear to be fulfilled, particularly as one quarter of Irish children remain at risk of poverty according to CORI and the ESRI.

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