Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

Deputy Naughten took the latitude of commenting on that issue. It is a serious one because if it is the view that these persons have to be set at liberty, it is because the Supreme Court has decided that the section of this Act became spent in 1937. It did not become spent at a Government meeting last week or in a statement made on the Order of Business by the Taoiseach this afternoon.

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