Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

-----it is less a case of senior hurling but sumo wrestling in the mud in reality, because this is very murky.

The Minister said that at the start of the telephone conversation the lobbyist gave him some information that he was not aware of, that is, the result from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. He gave the Minister something. The Minister responded by giving him something back, did he not? The Minister responded by giving him back a little information that he did not know. The Minister told him that it was likely that the Minister would be referring the matter, as he has explained. He was the first person to get that information. The National Union of Journalists was knocking on the door of the Minister looking for a meeting to find out what would happen next, but the first person to get the information was the big business lobbyist. There was a trade of information. In my opinion insider information was given to him. Is that not exactly how it happened?

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