asked the Minister for Justice if he could consider sympathetically the postponement of the sentence on a person in Donegal (details supplied) who has been in poor health and has been in the intensive care unit of a hospital.
Written Answers. - Postponement of Sentence.
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In view of the exceptional circumstances created by the postal dispute, I am accepting the question as a petition on behalf of the person concerned. I will deal with it as if the petition had been submitted to me in the normal way and I will communicate my decision to the Deputy later.
There are set procedures for having petitions dealt with and in normal circumstances I could not accept petitions in the form of parliamentary questions.