Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

Two Bills on corruption are with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. One is nearly ready for publication but I am not sure of the status of the other. The Deputy will need to table a parliamentary question to the Department on that. It will be a matter, when the Bill is implemented, of what action will be taken on these matters.

It was decided in 2006 to leave the present legal teams intact so that it might bring an efficient end to the tribunals. If the legal teams were removed, it was felt some of those involved would vacate their positions and disrupt the tribunals' work. That is why the decision was made at that stage.

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