Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

On several occasions I have made my view known that I would like to see the report of the tribunal published as quickly as possible. If the Deputy checks the record, he will find that on umpteen occasions I asked from the other side of the House when we might expect to see production of the Moriarty tribunal report. I welcome the fact that it has now been published. Neither the Minister, Deputy Hogan, nor any other Deputy was in a position to shorten the timescale for production of the report. We had expressed the wish that it would be produced as soon as possible, in the public interest. I have no knowledge of any meetings with Mr. O'Brien in the past 12 months. I did not see a draft of the final report of the Moriarty tribunal before it was published. As I said to the Deputy last week, I was informed of the report being published in digital fashion as I was going to the Cabinet meeting.

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