David Norris (Independent)

Can we have a debate on rendition, perhaps when the Irish Human Rights Commission issues its report on that subject? I understand the report will be very damaging. The head of the commission, former Senator Maurice Manning, is a pretty restrained person with a distinguished record in this House. He indicated that the Government had been trying to interfere with this report and that if it continued to do so it would have "a bloody fight on their hands". The commission has been infuriated by the Government's attempts to soften what may well be a damning report on rendition. It will confirm what people, especially those on this side of the House, have had to say about the subject.

Perhaps we can examine an issue of concern which was revealed in the The Sunday Tribune last weekend under the heading "Gardaí remove non-EU students from school". If this report is correct, it is an astonishing thing to have the country's police force entering the education system. The report stated: "Several school principals in Dublin's inner city have been contacted by the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) in the last six months and told that some of their students will have to cease attending immediately, regardless of what stage they are at in their education." The principals in these schools are outraged by this.

It would be appropriate if at some stage we paid tribute to the extraordinary work of Nuala O'Loan who has just retired as Police Ombudsman in the North of Ireland.