252 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Education and Science further to Question No. 115 of 20 October 2009, the person from whom he received the legal opinion that a sworn affidavit does not verify the contents of it; if his attention has been drawn to the commonly held fact that a sworn affidavit is equivalent to making sworn oral evidence before a judge in the High Court; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that falsifying an affidavit can lead to prosecution for perjury and that conviction for perjury can lead to imprisonment; if he will acknowledge that his reply was inaccurate in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40744/09]

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252 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Education and Science further to Question No. 115 of 20 October 2009, the person from whom he received the legal opinion that a sworn affidavit does not verify the contents of it; if his attention has been drawn to the commonly held fact that a sworn affidavit is equivalent to making sworn oral evidence before a judge in the High Court; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that falsifying an affidavit can lead to prosecution for perjury and that conviction for perjury can lead to imprisonment; if he will acknowledge that his reply was inaccurate in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40744/09]

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