Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I do not have to be invited to do that at all because on the very day that we received the report that there was damage to the MV Saoirse, we asked for the matter to be investigated. The investigation had to be carried out by the Turkish authorities because the vessel was in one of their ports. I am not telling the Deputy what I believe nor am I offering him an opinion. I am relating the report that came back to us. If somebody else has evidence, which contradicts that, we will ask to have that investigated. I made it clear on the day we received the report about the vessel that if there was sabotage, we would take a serious view of that.

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