Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The two Deputies, other than Labour Party Members, who were in the Dáil for the last speech that the then Deputy Michael D. Higgins made, were Deputy Dooley and me.

We were told that RTE does not have a report into the tweet, that the BAI has it. Has the management of RTE investigated the tweet and, if so, where is that report? There is the question of tracing the tweet to the IP address of the computer from which it was sent. I was involved ten years ago in tracing e-mails coming from a false account. We were able to trace them back within 24 hours. Technology has moved greatly forward since then. It is shoddy if the officials are telling me they have not traced the false tweet at this late stage, 12 or 13 months after the event.

It is amazing that the director general of RTE is able to sit here and tell us that he did not think it was a game-changer when the dogs in the street know and accept that it was, and that it directed the outcome of the election. His comments are questionable, because everybody accepts that night was a game-changer.