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We had meetings and provided costings to try to assist, but nobody raised that cost. The benefit of live transmission is that the case can be watched by those outside the court.
Going back to Caithness—Caithness is live in my mind, as I spent some time up there last week—some great work is taking place at North Highland College.
However, what is important is how we as politicians react to the situation. Lives have been lost, and the question is how avoidable each death from the dreadful infection C difficile was.
Something as basic as that— You may find that hard to believe, but I have hundreds of phone calls every day—that is what I do for a living. I just do not remember some of them.
When the Electoral Commission is set up, several of the remaining recommendations are expected to form part of its work.
Right to voteIrish citizens living abroad to have the right to vote in presidential elections.Citizens living outside the State should have the right to vote in presidential elections.
I am pleased to have heard a commitment to that in the minister’s opening speech.It is difficult to imagine the suffering that those in forced marriages endure, but the bill may give hope to many and provide them with a means of escape to live their lives in peace away from the all-encompassing shadow of fear.I concl...