Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Does the Taoiseach take responsibility for the monstrous costs involved in these tribunals because he failed to curb them, does he admit that the scandal of cost was raised with him and the then Tánaiste, the Minister for Health and Children, many years ago by myself and other Deputies and what does he propose to do to allow the investigation into corruption, which must be unmasked, to continue while curbing these outlandish fees for which the taxpayer will be liable?

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