David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a couple of questions on the operation of the unit, after which I will ask a number of questions on tribunal costs and commissions of investigation, which we dealt with earlier. I will be as brief as I can on this matter on which I ask the Chairman to show me some latitude.

Mr. Fraser dealt with some of the criticism of the strategic communications unit and I will not go back over old ground. Mr. Juno McEnroe published an article in the Irish Examiner in which he referred to a parliamentary question submitted by my colleague, Deputy Maurice Quinlivan, to the then Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald. The reply was drafted almost word for word by the strategic communications unit. Is that appropriate?