Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There is no record of a phone call on 11 November in the lobbying register. This was a private call relaying private information that was not publicly available. In response, as others have said, to the parliamentary question from Deputy Murphy on 6 December, the Minister said that the case was under consideration. He told Mr. Eoin Ó Neachtain 25 days previously that he would be referring it to the BAI. This information was not on the public record. There was a clear statutory process in place. In his reply, the Minister said that it would not be appropriate for him to provide further comment while the case was under consideration. That is what he told the Dáil. Yet, he was happy to provide that information previously to a lobbyist. Why?

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