Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Quite frankly, it is impossible to understand how the Minister could possibly have issued that press statement without having seen the email. How did the Minister have time to issue this statement when he denies all knowledge of the email?

How were the emails missed? A basic search for "McCabe" or "O'Higgins" would show them up. Can the Minister tell us whether there was a search of Deputy Fitzgerald's emails? Was there a search of the emails of her ministerial advisers? Is it the case that the people mentioned in the circulation list for these emails will now have to be interviewed or reinterviewed by the Charleton tribunal?

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