Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It was extraordinarily long. The difficulty is that Mr. O'Daly cites the Department. The ultimate tool for questioning the Department and the Minister is parliamentary questions, but the information on this case has been sparse. If one reads the responses, one is nearly led to believe that in this case it was, in fact, the Mr. O'Daly office that took the call on there being no prosecution. We have established today that this is not the case. Mr. O'Daly gives an opinion, directly or in conjunction with the Attorney General and others, but he is not in the business of calling the matter. That is a matter for the Department and, presumably, the Minister.