Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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Where would the figure come from? I presume the Department has not plucked the figure of 600 from the sky. Given the fact that the Office of the Appeal Commissioners had been in correspondence with the Department last year telling it not to use these figures, why would the Department come before this committee and state something that the commissioners have refuted?