Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I put on record Sinn Féin's support for both amendments Nos. 39 and 40. As amendment No. 39 deals with the issue of the 180 days, it allows me to again ask the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, the question which he has, so far, refused to answer. I will ask it again, and I also ask the Minister for the courtesy of a straight response. How does he justify excluding the 24,000 residents who spent less than six months in one of these awful institutions?