Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not know what is in the email. I have not seen the email or the affidavit. I can without contradiction clearly state that I made it crystal clear on that occasion that I would be taking the advice of my officials and applying it to this decision, as I had done with all previous decisions to that point. The file will clearly show with each hurdle along this very complicated process that I took absolutely all the advice given to me. I made no alteration to any of that advice and I approved the recommendations presented to me.

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