Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I will finish where I started. The cold-blooded killing of Donna Cleary was an act of barbarism and all right-thinking people will agree we must get much tougher on those who under legislation passed by this House are given a mandatory sentence and are dealt with by the Judiciary as they must. Some, though not all, were released after seven years but that is now 13 years. The parole board view is that it should be 15. The perception on the streets, however, is that it is still seven.

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