Frank Fahey (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

The Ombudsman has reached conclusions and the Ombudsman legislation states those conclusions should be placed before the Oireachtas. I welcome this report. It has set the record straight about the false and defamatory allegations made against me over the last number of years.

I am reminded of the quotation by Franklin D. Roosevelt when I look at the way in which Jim Higgins MEP has tried to destroy my good name: "Never let the facts destroy a good story and repetition does not transform a lie".

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