Seanad debates

Wednesday, 14 May 2003

. . . I do this with great regret, as nobody could but have sympathy for the parlous position in which the applicant and his family find themselves. . . . If there was any way in which a point could be stretched in relation to the various issues I have had to decide, so as to find that the position of the applicant and his family was so different as to not require me to follow the decisions to which I have referred, I would have been prepared to do so, not just in the interests of the applicant, but in the interest of the Tribunal itself. I say this because it seems to me that if the applicant does not have the benefit of the services of solicitor and Counsel for the duration of the Tribunal—

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