Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

All Ministers and all Members have known for several years that out of all of these issues there could be serious positions about tax evasion. Nobody had any particular information and I got no particular information from the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, or anybody else. It has been general knowledge, as somebody said here when Deputy Kenny raised the matter, that there are serious issues about this, but we will not know that until we hear it from the tribunal. There is plenty of hearsay about what might be involved in these issues——

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