Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It came to the rescue and it also served the Minister's, and, indeed, the Government's, purpose well in that it accelerated the resignation of the former Commissioner, Mr. Callinan. There is no doubt about that.

However, the former Commissioner was not playing ball. Somebody leaked a letter last night which did not fit in with the Government's scenario. A letter came out into the public arena stating that the Minister for Justice and Equality or the Department knew about this on 10 March. Why this whole explanation is incredible is that nobody on God's earth can believe that a letter of this importance arrived from an officer of the State of significant importance on a matter of apparently considerable urgency and the Minister was not told. Does the Minister expect us to believe that top officials had a look at this and stated that they would not bother him with it for a while and give him a few weeks-----

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