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

As a Government Minister, I never had, nor did I seek, nor was I ever informed that I would have, access to either the agendas or the minutes of Governments that went before me or before the Governments in which I served. I found it extraordinary that the Minister of State made that assertion that he read previous Cabinet minutes. That is what he said. He said he had read the minutes of previous Cabinets.

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