Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I support what the Chairman is saying. We risk damaging his prospects of ever getting out of that jail. He may have been there for two years now but he could be there for his whole life. We have taken the Government-to-Government and Minister-to-Minister approach. We have taken the diplomatic route and our Taoiseach has met Egypt's President. It is the Egyptian state versus Ibrahim's legal team and if we formally invite the legal team, which is on the opposite side to the Government we are trying to persuade, it can do nothing but damage his case.