Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I join in that appeal. We are and have been members of the Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and we get dozens of items of correspondence every week and month from people telling us there have been all sorts of injustices and that they were treated badly or whatever. Virtually none of those cases makes it to the floor of the Dáil; the reason this case has is that people across every political party that is represented in this House have heard Dan Brennan's story and have believed what he has said. In every major scandal that has ever affected this State in which it took decades in order to get justice, at some point down the line a Minister read basically the same statement that the Minister has read and had handed to him. I am appealing to the Minister's personal nature because we all know, for all our political differences, he is a good man. The Minister can make a difference to another good man's life that has been put into turmoil as a result of the way he has been treated.

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