Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister said an interesting thing - that he communicated his personal opinion to Mr. Ó Neachtain. How does he think that his personal opinion is relevant here? Does he not see himself as a Minister or is that sometimes his personal opinion does not coincide with his opinion as a Minister? I find that rather bizarre. It is almost like the Minister is attempting to throw out this notion that he did something in a personal capacity. His thoughts and ramblings were his views as the Minister who would ultimately have to take that decision. He is being accused of providing information to one party as to where he expected this to go or how he intended to deal with it. Yet, he came in here on 6 December and told us he had no intention of giving us any information.

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