Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

As I said yesterday and numerous times in the last week, our work must be to try to help the people who are affected by this and not to get lost in all of the other details. Obviously, for those seven people and some other cases mentioned here over the last few years, the services did not work, for one reason or another. I am not the expert to write the reports. There is a person appointed to do that, who has all the qualifications to write an independent report and I will accept that report, whatever it says. I have been very careful not to cast aspersions on the people involved. I have not even used the briefing notes I have had.

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