Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

-----its Oireachtas members had unanimously voted". It states that without media disclosures in 2001, "No person or entity connected with the payment [this is the payment from Esat of $50,000] saw fit to notify the tribunal of it, notwithstanding a substantial degree of knowledge of its clandestine circumstances and proffered return, and it is likely that, without the media disclosures that occurred in 2001, the matter would have remained hidden from public knowledge".

The Taoiseach has come in here and said that he has read nothing of that and that he knows nothing of the detail to get him over today but I am under no illusions that the Taoiseach has been well briefed, even by now, in terms of the essence of this report and the conclusions. I say to the Taoiseach-----

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