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

This relates to a parliamentary question I tabled. The reply I got was comprehensively wrong and misleading in a fundamental way. The Minister has now corrected the factual aspect, but has left many unanswered questions regarding, for example, the period before March 2012 and the whole issue of discontinued freedom of information, whatever that was about. That is the first mechanism by which this came to the attention of the Department of Finance officials, apparently. I have been here plenty of times in the past when, if there were such a substantial misleading of the House, Ministers would have been questioned about it.

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