Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

-----to ensure that people are provided with the representation to which they are entitled in accordance with de Valera's Constitution. One could not get a more perverse application from a Fianna Fáil-led Government than the one they now intend to proceed to make to the Supreme Court. I hope the Supreme Court has the wisdom to tell them that there is no longer a justiciable issue and throws out the appeal.

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