Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

This system is used effectively elsewhere to study the broad legislation and keep ahead of it, perhaps in different ways.

Deputy Rabbitte asked many questions. Let me take a few of them. According to the protocols and recommendations in the 1995 report, the Attorney General should have been informed ten days before that case. He and the DPP appointed the same counsel for the case and for the appeal but for that long period between 29 November 2002 and May 2006, he was not personally informed about it, although his office went ahead with the case. While the protocol for procedure was not observed that did not affect the work done.

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