Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

Legal advice of a political nature, I would argue, in terms of the Government. Not to ask for that is, in itself, an irresponsible lack of action. Does the Taoiseach not accept that on the back of that delay by the then Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue, the Attorney General was involved in prosecuting criminal cases in which we now know the State to have been in the wrong? Is the Taoiseach not duty bound as Head of Government to hold to account the people who brought about that farcical situation and, in turn, wasted an enormous amount of money, damaged the reputation of the Garda Síochána and sentenced the McBrearty family to years of trauma, which was completely unjust and of which they were innocent? As Taoiseach he is required to take action.

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