Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Surely at that stage somebody in the Department would have been responsible for evaluating the case that was to be taken against it and formulating some legal defence. Did it occur to anyone in the Department, whatever about the technical interpretation of the interdepartmental group's report, that morally and in terms of the intent of the Quirke report that it was not in line with what had been intended and that the Department should consider revisiting the issue?