Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

-----and the respective state of knowledge of the Taoiseach and the Minister for Transport. This is a value for money question. Given that €250,000 of taxpayers' money is being spent on the communications unit, we are entitled to probe what is value for money of that expenditure.

The issue here is did the Taoiseach get any information from the communications unit about this matter and, second, when was he told about the Minister O'Dea issue? He seemed to imply to Deputy Kenny that he did not know anything about it on 21 December. Did he know about it before 21 December when he cannot recall whether the communications unit told him about it, or was he told about it after 21 December?

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