Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I find the Taoiseach's response somewhat incredible. I did not ask if the Minister did any favours to anybody. What he did, by the way, was keep one party informed and nobody else. Contrary to what the Taoiseach said, he did not speak about advice. The Minister said last week: "I expressed a purely personal view that the likely course of action would be a referral to a phase 2 assessment."

He told them the decision he was going to take. He told nobody else. He did not tell Dáil Deputies, who asked the same question in here three weeks later. He told nobody else. When one gives that commercially sensitive information to one party, one is actually responsible for what happens with it down the line-----

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