Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not know the answer to that question. In the very brief conversation I had with the Minister, Deputy Zappone, she pointed out that she had met Sergeant McCabe. I corrected the record yesterday on that and acknowledge that I was mistaken in my account of the sequence of contacts with the Minister, Deputy Zappone. She spoke to me just before the Cabinet meeting began. She did say that she met Sergeant McCabe and discussed questions of false allegations of a sexual nature made to Tusla against him.

The Cabinet was just about to consider the terms of reference and which I had read. Clearly, the central issue is whether a smear campaign was directed by senior gardaí against Sergeant McCabe. The question is referred to directly in the case of criminal misconduct made against Sergeant McCabe in the terms of reference drafted by Mr. Justice O'Neill which Mr. Justice Charleton later said fully covered the implications of that and all of the issues that were portrayed the "Prime Time" programme.

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