Dáil debates

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

12:10 pm

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have no difficulty with that being done but I will have to check whether it is possible. There is nothing here to hide and there is no one here whom I or the Government is trying to protect. All we are interested in is the truth, and the best way we can get to the truth is to allow the tribunal to do its work. I ask anyone in this House or anywhere else who has information, and whose information has not yet been put in the public domain, information that I am not yet aware of, to put that information together and transmit it through the tribunal, which is the right thing to do. I have also asked the Department of Justice and Equality through my Department to do two things. First, I have asked it to go through a trawl of the documents again to see if there is anything that it has not yet come across, that it has not yet passed on to the tribunal and second, I have asked for a report on the implementation of the Toland report. The Deputy will be aware that a number of years ago, after the Tánaiste became Minister for Justice and Equality, she commissioned Kevin Toland to do a report on the functioning of the Department of Justice and Equality in order to set out a reform programme to modernise and improve that Department. I have sought a report on the extent to which that is being implemented.

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