Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Brian Lenihan, is preparing the compliance at Government level across different Departments and I have no problem with the Taoiseach answering my question as it is a question to Government. The White Paper is not the possession of any single Minister; it is published by the Government and it is a Government commitment to ratify the UN convention. I simply want to know whether the UN convention is to be ratified.

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