Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has informed us that Cabinet colleagues were not consulted in the manner in which the Taoiseach led us to believe they were. The Minister has also indicated that her colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, was perhaps aware of the details of this matter but that she was not.

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