Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

The Minister and I have discussed on a number of occasions the issue of former members of the Defence Forces being evicted from their homes in the Curragh Camp. I know he has called them overholders and used anachronisms, but they are 29 families and individuals, a number of whom left their homes early this morning to attend this discussion and are present in the Visitors Gallery. They are not here to cause the Minister embarrassment or trouble but literally to plead with him to call off the evictions and sit down with them to agree a solution. We are not being prescriptive about what that solution should be, but the current method is certainly not desirable for anybody.

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