Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Secretary General of the Department had it. Was she informed by the communications unit or by some other method? Certainly, she was wise to what was going on.

The Taoiseach has not answered the second question about whether information given to the Secretary General is informing the Government because she is Secretary General of a Department.

Was anybody in the communications unit asked specifically why these two stories with major implications, which caused so much rumpus during the summer and which will cause so many economic consequences in the mid-west, were missed by the communications unit? Why were these two articles from both newspapers not circulated to the Minister in June, long before this came to a head in August, when he stated he was not informed about it until the weekend before?

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