Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

When the Minister was in his constituency on 13 November last - unlucky 13 - he received a phone call from the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality. He must have been shocked when the Secretary General, having clocked up 40 years' service, dropped a bombshell - out of the blue - and said he was retiring. That was the first bit of news. The second bit of news was that an email relating to the Maurice McCabe situation, which should have been sent to the tribunal but had not been sent to it, was being sent on. When the words "Maurice McCabe" are mentioned, I am sure it gives rise to a frisson and causes alarm bells to go off in the minds of Ministers, particularly the Minister for Justice and Equality. The Minister, Deputy Flanagan, did not ask the Secretary General what the email was about. I know there were another 230 emails. That day, the next day, the day after or the day after that-----

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