Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

——because we did not want to believe the US authorities. We received a categorical factual statement on this matter from the American authorities. We, as a Government, have no reason to disbelieve that. One can, if one so desires, paint a mosaic of possible coincidences, although tenuously in some circumstances, regarding the movement of planes, etc.——

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