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

After the fact is after it had already started and was under way, from the opening statements. We should point out the former Commissioner disputes some of this. That is also part of the tribunal. She has a story to tell, which I am sure she will tell in due course. What seems to be suggested here in the House today, certainly by Deputy McDonald and just now by Deputy Ryan, is that the Tánaiste should have had a hand, act and part in the Commissioner's legal strategy, that she should have ignored the advice of her officials and intervened in the work of a commission of investigation to tell a separate legal entity, the Garda and the Garda Commissioner, to change its legal strategy. If she had done that, we would be answering a whole different set of questions here today as to why the Tánaiste went against legal advice and the advice of her officials to interfere in somebody else's legal strategy.

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