Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)

On whether the evidence exists, when I visited Vienna recently as part of a visit to the United Nations' Human Rights Council, I also met the deputy director of the IAEA, who had just visited Iran. It is clear that he and the others in the agency are people of enormous integrity who are professionals in their field and they have carried out countless site visits. With regard to the report, Deputy Mac Lochlainn asserts it is questionable or unreliable. I disagree. The report is based on information that has been drawn from a wide range of sources, including the regular inspections which have been carried out by IAEA inspectors, including the gentleman I met in Vienna, and it is deemed by the IAEA to be consistent in terms of technical content, individuals and organisations involved in that timeframe. I reject the Deputy's assertion.

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