Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

——and that is the judicial decree in the matter. The Minister, Deputy McDowell, has declared the Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue, to be blameless and innocent, and that this should be good enough for him and that he should skulk off to south Kerry and not appear on "Questions & Answers" or anywhere else to answer questions. The Minister has dropped him in it, and he knows that. The Taoiseach has come in here and said that when the Assistant Commissioner of the day, Noel Conroy, intelligibly put the evidence together from the Carty report in a legible form and submitted it to the Ministers, that this was not the Carty report. I refer to an answer from one of the Taoiseach's predecessors, Mr. Haughey, when he denied that there was any such meeting. The Taoiseach is now denying there was any such report. We are not talking about the investigation file of the Minister, Deputy McDowell, nor about the depth of documents that must be furnished to the Director of Public Prosecutions before a prosecution is mounted; we are talking about the substance, the gravamen, of the allegations made where two citizens were framed for a murder that was never committed. Neither the Taoiseach nor anyone else could answer the question as to why that was redesignated from a murder to a hit and run two years earlier than we were told about it and the Taoiseach allowed a debate to happen in this House to cause a tribunal to be set up and we did not even know Mr. McBrearty and his first cousin did not know that they were no longer under suspicion for murder because it had been redesignated a hit and run two years ago. It is a disgrace. Your combined efforts——

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