Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. McMahon very much. One of the reasons we were very keen to ask Mr. McMahon to come into the committee was because of his experience over the last 20 years to 25 years. It is a damning indictment of one State organisation turning the blind eye when it was needed. The key time was in 2000, when Mr. McMahon was taking his case and when that group, which included representatives of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, the Social Welfare Appeals Office, IBEC, ICTU, the Department of Finance and Revenue, got together to try to block his case. It was discussing Mr. McMahon's case at the time.