Erin McGreehan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would like to address Senator Buttimer's remarks about closing schools early. The coming period is a wonderful time for our children in primary schools. It is important that they stay in school until the end for many reasons. I know there will be public health advice if a school needs to close due to its own specific circumstances. I think that, in general, schools should remain open until the end of the school term.

I welcome the UK Supreme Court judgment that the PSNI decision not to investigate the so-called Hooded Men incident was wrong. This is another example of how the British state structure systematically failed, time and time again, to uphold any decency or rule of law. It colluded with both sides of that war.