Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

The Deputy should allow me to finish and I will tell him why. I have not derided his position, I am simply informing him of the reality. Under European convention, and probably under the Constitution, there would have to be a very elaborate procedure before one prisoner was dealt with radically differently to another prisoner. If it was proposed to forfeit remission, there would have to be hearings with the involvement of lawyers, etc.

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