Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

I put it to the Minister that his Cabinet colleague, the Minister for Defence, Deputy O'Dea, is reported to have said on more than one occasion that it is his belief, and that of sources close to the Taoiseach, that the Mahon tribunal had outstripped its brief and had already gone beyond what was envisaged when it was originally established.

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