Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Is that the responsibility of the Minister of State? Is he sent out to attack helpless Deputies at home who are unable to defend themselves in the same forum? This is not the hallmark of the Taoiseach. Perhaps Deputy Treacy thought he was appearing before the Mahon tribunal and that it was leaking like a sieve. We did hear about it here. It is not standard practice for the Government and I would like the Taoiseach to rap him across the knuckles for that. He has a delegated responsibility in the Taoiseach's Department but maybe he was operating under the remit of the Department of Foreign Affairs, where he has no formal delegation status as of 13 June.

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