Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

——under the statute would be fully respected. We made it a serious offence to breach the confidentiality of a draft report.

I understand, contrary to what Deputy Rabbitte is saying, that we are not dealing here with a case where somebody had the final report; we are dealing with a case where somebody had a draft, which was submitted to them in confidence with a warning attached that they would commit——

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