Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is amazing to learn that the Defence Forces were called on 324 occasions. As the Minister is aware, Margaretta D'Arcy is still in prison. It is interesting to note the comments of the former UN Assistant Secretary General, who highlighted that Ms D'Arcy's refusal to sign a bond not to return to Shannon Airport is based on her belief in the Nuremberg principle of 1945 whereby individual citizens of any country have international duties and responsibilities that transcend national and domestic obligations of obedience to local law. If commonsense were to prevail, would this 79 year old woman not be released? What purpose is being served by her imprisonment? The Minister can argue that she cannot be released because the law is the law, but if the law were black and white, we would not need judges. It seems a strange call on the part of the State that a 79 year old woman has been locked up, especially given the number of people who were responsible for deaths and have not seen the inside of a prison.

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