Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I welcome Mr. Brennan and the other witnesses. My son Jackie would have talked about this and I listened to the Committee on Public Petitions. It is probably one of the worst cases I have ever seen of somebody being failed by the State. I do not agree with going to the Committee on Public Petitions. I was involved with it a few years ago with regard to bogs and I wasted my time. The sad part of it is that everywhere Mr. Brennan has gone, people have said what happened to him was terrible and wrong but nobody has ever fixed the problem. That is the bottom line. I do not know whether the political system is fit to fix it for him. It is a damnable thing to say because it could be permanent governments, be they in Brussels or here, but someone somewhere is blocking justice for him. Regarding kilograms and grams, is there evidence the EPA has that it was 200 times more of the stuff? I cannot think of the name of it.