Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

If the politicians who made this decision were wrong, they are accountable for what is happening. If that contributed to the scandal that has now unfolded, they are accountable. Does the Minister agree with that? That is an important question.

Is it not strange? Can the Minister explain this to me? The then Opposition spokesperson, James Reilly, flagged these concerns in the Dáil in 2008. When he got into Government, why did he not follow through on it? He expressed in the Dáil exactly the same concerns that Sam Coulter-Smith and David Gibbons had expressed very strongly. When he was appointed Minister, he did absolutely nothing about it. His successor, Deputy Leo Varadkar, did nothing about it. The Minister has done nothing about it.

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