Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

The Taoiseach is on record as saying that he did nothing wrong and he repeated this assertion today. The Progressive Democrats are still happy with the excuse of "if he had the benefit of hindsight" and "it was an error", yet the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Lenihan, is the only Minister to say that what took place in Manchester was unthinkable. All the other Ministers — Deputies Cowen, Hanafin, Coughlan, Dermot Ahern, Noel Dempsey, O'Donoghue, O'Dea, Martin and Cullen — said that they could see nothing wrong with it.

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