Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)

Rightly so. My point is that the findings were not exclusively against the members of one party and we must all ensure that this can never happen again. This will require the Government parties to step up to the mark to ensure that they take responsibility on their side. The Moriarty tribunal found that a Minister who sat at the Cabinet table with many of the members of the current Government delivered a mobile telephone licence to a particular company. This was one of the most significant decisions made by the State in recent years. Fianna Fáil had nothing to do with it.

We must ensure that politics from now on will be above reproach. I note the Minister, Deputy Hogan has suppressed and reversed the decision to have an independent investigation into planning decisions in certain local authorities, a retrograde step.

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