Family welcomes positive signs at Lost at Sea hearing

A FAMILY thrown into the middle of a political battle has welcomed signs the Government may back down and pay them compensation for rejecting their original claim under the Lost at Sea scheme.

Danny Byrne, whose father and brother drowned at sea in 1981, was speaking after the Oireachtas Agriculture Committee finally heard Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly’s stinging criticism of the Lost at Sea scheme.

He said comments by TDs linked to Fianna Fáil signalled the Government might revisit the scheme.