Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This particular person was director of market development at Fáilte Ireland at the time that the Taoiseach in his capacity of Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport took it upon himself to lobby on foot of a phone call from Donald Trump. Is the Taoiseach 100% sure that he did not ring Clare County Council? Can he state that categorically? We have two different views and both of them are the Taoiseach's. Was his humorous anecdote simply him telling lies or did he know he had an ally in his friend, the director of market development at Fáilte Ireland? Did he know that was an ally? Did he take comfort in the fact that he had an ally in that friend? If he changed his story, was the Taoiseach comfortable that if he changed his story from lobbying the council to lobbying Fáilte Ireland he would have a certain level of protection? Was that his reason for doing it? Was it that friend of the Taoiseach's who advised him to change the story for that very reason? Which was it? He has yet to answer those questions. I think it is time - everyone knows this - for the Taoiseach to disband his spin unit. It has been an abysmal failure. It is fooling nobody. He should do it before he is shamed into it.

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