Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

While I run a constituency office, as a Minister I have to adopt a certain attitude regarding issues which I am independent of and that includes those relating to the DPP, the Judiciary and the Courts Service, which has a function in the investment of funds of wards of court under legislation. I have no function in this and, therefore, I can give no opinion on how the funds are administered because that is a matter for the Courts Service under the legislation, not the blarney we pass here.

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