Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is not alleged at all. The transcripts were published in May 2016 and it is clear in black and white that the Department of Justice and Equality had emails and conversations at that stage affirming that it was aware of that strategy.

The impression given in the speeches delivered by the former Minister more or less implied that the legal strategy was a surprise to her and she had no knowledge of it. Who would normally write the Minister's speeches?