Dáil debates

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

4:00 pm

Photo of Michael D HigginsMichael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

It is a very happy outcome that Fr. Michael Sinnott has been released since the matter of his captivity was raised on the Adjournment some weeks ago. He was very impressive when we met him. The graciousness of his response, his courage and his commitment to the people, to whom he is to return in January, are admirable.

With regard to the murder of a Kiltegan Father in Kenya, it is very important that it be pointed out, as the Minister for Foreign Affairs has done, that attacks on such people are attacks on all the people of Ireland.

All the people in question who work abroad do not qualify for pensions in the Irish system on the grounds that they do not meet the habitual residency requirement.

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