Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

We know the history of this case now no thanks to the Taoiseach or the Ministers, Deputies McDowell and O'Donoghue. They all gave us conflicting, partial, half answers. It is no thanks to the Minister, Deputy McDowell, that whoever leaked it to whomsoever leaked it, in turn, to The Irish Times that we now know the sequence of events. It now seems the Taoiseach as well as the Minister, Deputy McDowell, will dump on the Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue. The Taoiseach keeps saying he had only a partial report and so on. The Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue, said "The investigation by Assistant Commissioner Carty was completed and presented to me and, in turn, to the DPP" in answer to a question from Deputy Howlin.

I acknowledge this is disquieting and I enjoyed the way the Minister, Deputy McDowell, declared the Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue, innocent judicially. I enjoyed his performance last week——

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