Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)

That may well be the case. He is the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and he will be the one who will sort this out. There are no criteria, as I understand it, other than what is stated, which the Minister read out to me, to which nobody pays a blind bit of heed in any case. Will we give the general entitlement to people to affirm or to take an oath?

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