Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I said she seems to be a decent individual. What I cannot judge or what I find difficult to explain, and I do not know why the Minister is shaking his head, is how all this information could be in her Department and we are told it was not discussed. We are told that people forgot about it. It was so unimportant or registered so little at the time that people just forgot about it. It was the biggest political hot potato imaginable for the Government but it was just not discussed. However, was it discussed with other Ministers at the time? Other Departments and Ministers, therefore, and any communications they had relating to the smear campaign against Maurice McCabe should be also included in the information that is handed over to the Charleton tribunal.

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