Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

I will ask the questions and the Taoiseach can then answer them. On where does the Taoiseach rely for information flow if his Ministers do not give him at least a heads up regarding such a serious matter or the communications unit does not bring it to his attention? It brings into question the Minister, in the first instance, and the focus of this set of questions regarding the communications unit. If the unit is not bringing such matters to the Taoiseach's attention, what matters does it bring to his attention? What is its role or function? This is a situation where a Minister had wrongly damned a citizen in the full prose of an election campaign-----

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