Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A number of speakers raised the issue of the 2011 case. Let me be clear that it was on the basis of a High Court order, following a court case. Legally, we were required to act and we did. That was not a voluntary intervention by the Minister for an individual case. There was a High Court judgment, a court order, which was clear and we simply implemented it.