Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Not if I was to read them all. A substantial number of complex cases go through the system all the time and, in fairness, of literally hundreds of cases, whatever case goes wrong will be a huge one. There is a vast array of cases and while procedures are in place to ensure every issue goes through the Attorney General, and it should under the protocols, people probably just follow a system, get careless about a system or whatever. That did not take from them doing their job in an excellent way. The 19 measures are new and are in place to minimise further the risk of recurrence, although when one considers the volume of submissions and cases, including cases to the European Court of Justice, compared with even five years ago, the volume and complexity of the cases, ones going on in so many other areas——

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