Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the implications of the most recent report from a committee of the European Parliament in regard to the abuse of human rights through extraordinary rendition, which has suggested that Ireland is not in a position to deny that it was not involved in the transport of those illegally apprehended, transferred and tortured; the position which has arisen in which Ireland's international policy in regard to human rights has been placed by the failure to carry out the inspections possible or necessary to enable the Irish people to know for certain they were not part of this appalling abuse of human rights.

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