Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will answer Deputy Howlin's last question first. No, I was not advised. I was not aware of the contents of what we would be discussing that morning regarding the response to the O'Neill report. No, I did not have any advice in that regard.

With regard to the Deputy's first question, I have already answered that. I made a decision. I discerned the information that had been shared with me by the McCabe family in that original meeting and had Tusla respond very quickly to their questions in terms of a further file and what was going on. As I said already here in the Chamber, the letter that went with that was to ask if there were any other issues they wanted to clarify. That was where I was at with them at that stage, and I decided that is where it should stay.

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