Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

As regards getting involved in investigations and making changes, under the Geneva Convention Ireland is committed to maintaining an independent Red Cross. An independent Red Cross means an autonomous organisation that runs its own show, whose executive council deals with governance matters and matters that have come out in the media in recent times. That is the law and that is what we signed up to as a nation. With the best will in the world, even if I provided €951 million rather than €951,000, I could do not do anything about that.

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