Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

No, the money was stolen. I have said so before and I will say it again. That is what happened - €3 million was allocated by this House and €1.1 million of it was misappropriated according to the judges of the Supreme Court, a higher power than these Houses. We are the Legislature and the Supreme Court acts on our decisions. I would like to rephrase it but that is the word I have used before. There is no escaping it, that is what happened and there has been no debate on that in this House, in spite of me asking the Ceann Comhairle for special notice questions.

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