Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Why did a Government spokesperson confirm to RTE last evening for the midnight news - this is not speculation - that Mr. Fitzgerald had been approached in order to avoid the debacle over the Mater hospital site? Has RTE been completely wrongly advised by someone speaking officially on behalf of the Government? I refer to a Government spokesperson rather than a Government source. We should not play semantic games about phrases such as "independent reports".

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