Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

It is a question. I am asking the Taoiseach if he does not recognise that his statement could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

On the issue of the missing files, the Taoiseach has not confirmed whether any level of investigation prior to or since his becoming Taoiseach was undertaken in the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, in regard to the copy files that have also gone missing in Garda hands. Has any investigation taken place or, given the gravity of the matter of the missing files, does he not believe——

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