Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

I wish to join with my colleagues and with the Taoiseach in sympathising with the late Senator Kieran Phelan's family. There is shock and upset here in the House this morning at the news but it is nothing to the shock and upset that will be felt in the wider Rathdowney and Laois area. Unlike my colleagues, I did not have the opportunity of serving on Laois County Council with him but I served on the Midland Regional Authority. Kieran was always a very good-natured, friendly man and always had the interests of his own area at heart. I join in expressing my sympathy to his wife, Mary, his five children, his mother and his brother, Brendan and extended family.

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