Michael McCarthy (Labour)

I accept the Chair's ruling. This four year old boy is autistic and is now in foster care. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform is to be commended on ordering a reprieve of one week in regard to the deportation of his family. This boy is receiving one-to-one tuition, he has a classroom assistant and is being cared for. If he goes back to Nigeria he will not get that assistance. The rudimentary health care system there would not offer him the basics let alone what a person with his special needs requires. Ministerial discretion in regard to the implementation of deportation legislation needs be exercised. I ask that the Minister immediately extend to one month the reprieve granted in order that Great can be properly assessed and thereafter allowed to remain in this country. This State must extend its support to this autistic boy of four years of age.