160 Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the recent developments in the House of Lords whereby former residents of the British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia, exiled in the 1960’s when the colony was leased to the US to build an air base, were denied the right to return; his view of this ongoing transgression of the islanders right of abode; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38372/08]

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160 Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the recent developments in the House of Lords whereby former residents of the British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia, exiled in the 1960’s when the colony was leased to the US to build an air base, were denied the right to return; his view of this ongoing transgression of the islanders right of abode; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38372/08]

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