Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

Deputy Rabbitte expects us to accept the proposition that it was okay for the then Minister for Justice to continue in office when she had received correspondence to the effect that the criminal court designed to try terrorists in this country was improperly constituted for several weeks. He asks us to accept that this was all right and that she was not expected to know that little matter. He expects the current Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, to resign because he did not personally know something which he could have done nothing about anyway.

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