Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The House is discussing a serious matter and a serious process has been put in place to deal with matters outlined in documents the Deputy gave me last week. At that time I said I believed he was right to give me those documents, and he was correct in doing that. It does not mean he was right in everything else, from my point of view, in his charges about maladministration and incompetence on behalf of the Minister.

The Minister, Deputy Shatter, set out this morning the chronology of events that happened here, the action that had been taken by him on receiving the documentation in the Department of Justice and Equality, and the follow-through on that, arising out of which came the O'Mahoney investigation being put in place. The Minister tried very hard to set out here his understanding-----

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