Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

The Deputy made his point of information, which I reject. The point I wanted to make was that those who sat around the Cabinet table when the basic preconditions for what has been exposed in the Morris tribunal came to pass must share accountability for that with those who have since been in office when the matters came to light. They must accept that they are at least as culpable as yours truly, who is now remedying the situation whereas they failed to remedy it. They walked away from governance issues in the Garda Síochána for years. The Labour Party was ten years in office and it walked away from this issue and never delivered one line of it. That is what the record shows.

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