Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

In essence, the Minister has compounded everything he has done because the criticism of Jim Higgins and me, of all the issues that were investigated, was that in this narrow instance, we should have caused "inquiries, interviews, correspondence or meetings in relation to the allegations before taking them further". In other words, we should have done so before taking them to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. How in God's name were we going to conduct——

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