Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To reply to the Deputy's first question, the Minister for Justice and Equality was not aware of the letter, was not informed about it and did not see it. The briefing that began in the Department of Justice and Equality was interrupted by me at 6 p.m. to call the Minister over to the Department of the Taoiseach. That briefing was about the Bailey case, the discovery of those tapes and their transcription and the need for an affidavit, and it had started when I called. It is not a case of the contents of the letter being the subject of a briefing, because the letter was not seen and the Minister was not made aware of it.

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