Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

——having consulted the Director of Public Prosecutions on foot of the Attorney General's request to see the Garda file, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions noted that it would be difficult for persons reading themselves into the case to make sense of the issues without sight of these papers. That was a long time after that particular period. The full Carty report was not available until 2002. The Minister had raised the issue the previous year.

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