Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I have said consistently, in terms of the facts as they emerged on the programme regarding false allegations, the first time that I heard of those details was when I went home and saw the "Prime Time" programme. I had never been briefed on a Tusla file. I did not know whether there was any Garda involvement, for example, with Tusla in regard to Maurice McCabe. I never knew there was a counsellor involved. I never knew about the set of false allegations that had been made by the counsellor to Tusla. I had no information on those facts as they emerged on the "Prime Time" programme. I had had no briefing from anyone on that because no one in my Department knew, and I had never been briefed by anybody else that these allegations were around.

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