Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

——and not consult with you, the Minister? That really does stretch credulity, given his position as Minister and his responsibility as corporate sole.

It is extraordinary that a journalist, as happened in the beef tribunal where the only person against whom action was taken was a journalist, should be sought to be brought before the courts for merely reporting the outcome of a report into one of the most extraordinary incidents that has ever happened in our criminal justice system.

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