Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact that people from the embassy will be in attendance and monitoring and I accepted the intentions of the Government are not to harm Ibrahim in any way, but at this stage what is needed is the highest possible level of political intervention. Of course there are differences in other cases, but was high level political intervention a factor in the case of the Australian citizen, Peter Greste, and the Canadian citizen, Mohammed Fahmy?

In the last couple of days the family did not know what prison he was in, as mentioned by Deputy Crowe. They went to another prison and he was not there, but when they went back to the first prison they found he had been moved. According to his family, he showed signs of physical abuse. We need the maximum possible intervention to pressurise the authorities.

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