Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I have not derided what was suggested by Deputy Kenny in this regard. What I am saying is that the system would collapse if one had to earn one's quarter, in the sense that if one had a non-presumptive system in which one had to show one had earned one's quarter off, and that it was a matter of debate in the case of each prisoner whether he or she had done so.

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