Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the issue of junior bondholders, there was a positive legal obligation in many of those cases and a court case was taken which, unfortunately, went against the State in regard to some of those cases.

Leaving that aside, Ministers will look at this in the round. Of course, it will not take them three months to look at the Attorney General's report but they will have to look at many documents going back to the 1970s and 1980s and listen to what the House and what people have to say at the Oireachtas joint committee.

In respect of the disabled persons maintenance allowance, DPMA, payments, it is important to say again that this is an historic issue that relates to the period before 2007, and the partially leaked draft memo did not cover all of the facts. One thing we now know since then is that there were actually three periods involved: a period between 1983 and 1996, when the law was one thing; a period between 1996 and 1999, when the law was another thing; and a period between 1999 and 2007, when the law was different again. That gives an example of how much more complexity and truth there is to this than what has been presented in certain places in recent times.

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