Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

I dealt with this issue when Deputy Rabbitte raised it yesterday but I will respond again. The legal advice deals with a number of issues, including nursing home subventions and those in other forms of institution. They are the subject of legal proceedings which will be coming before the courts shortly. Whatever about Deputy Rabbitte or how it might help my popularity, I am not going to jeopardise the position of this State in any legal proceedings, if that is the advice I receive from the Attorney General. The tragedy is that the Attorney General's advice was not sought going back to 1976——

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