Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I thank Deputy Wallace for raising this matter. I have been talking to the Minister of State about this case for four months. The young man is trying to get back to his grandmother in Callan on compassionate grounds. He is a communications operator. There is a vacancy in Kilkenny for him and the problem lies in transferring him from the navy to the Army but it has been done. An individual, and I do not want to name anyone, who was in the same position and applied a year after him, has been transferred. Why is he being discriminated against when another person has been transferred already? Will the Minister of State consider this case personally?

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