Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I think the Senator knows me in that I absolutely believe that people can change. When I was in Cork recently, I met a group of wonderful men in a project who had spent years involved in crime, had addiction problems and other issues. I absolutely believe that people should be able to turn their lives around. Where they have inflicted pain on other people is not to say they cannot change. What I am saying is you cannot excuse what happened the other day.