Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

I am seeking information from the Ceann Comhairle on this issue. For example, in the case of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, 6,000 people, including 2,012 children, in direct provision cannot be handled by the Minister of State, Deputy White, because she will have integration until the individuals concerned have secured citizenship or residency. In the meantime, she is cutting by half the grant to a publication that would have advocated their rights. This is an outrageous precedent in censorship for any Government, Minister or Department in the history of the State.

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