Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

The Green Party also welcomes the fact that the House will sit next Wednesday and Thursday. It is a nonsense that the House is considering rising and my party would prefer if we had a full sitting week next week.

On Friday's special sitting, I request that time be provided for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to make a further statement, preferably during today's sitting, in light of the re-publication in today's edition of the Irish Independent of an article he wrote in the Sunday Independent in 1995 in which he indicated his intimate knowledge of the issue in hand. The Minister needs to make a statement setting forth the reasons he has not acted on that knowledge since becoming a member of the Cabinet in 1999.

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