Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy has quite a history in the past couple of years of engaging in innuendo and making allegations against people that in some cases turn out to be false. If he has any evidence that any individual, politician, adviser, civil servant or anybody associated with Dr. Scally or his team put this information in the public domain by talking to journalists, I ask him to present that evidence. If he has no evidence, he should not make the assumption that it must have been a politician or a member of the Government. He has no basis for that. It should be basic decent politics in the House that we do not make allegations against each other when we have no basis or evidence for doing so.

When a leak happens, I often wonder who did it. One would presume that the person who did it somehow had a plan or thought to benefit from it in some way. The aspect of the report that was leaked was that it was Dr. Scally's opinion that a commission of inquiry was not necessary. Bear in mind that the Government had made a decision to establish a commission of inquiry and the Government still has no difficulty with doing so. Even the innuendo on this occasion does not make sense.

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