Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We can establish a number of things. First, the confidential document, the draft agreement, was not complete. There were changes to it afterwards. We can establish that the Tánaiste's friend requested that document and that he told nobody in the Department of the Taoiseach, the Department of Health, in the HSE or in the IMO. He did not send it to the head office which is across the street. Instead, he decided to get the home address of his friend and post it in an envelope to him. He had a number of text messages and engagements with him. The Tánaiste knew that the organisation was a rival organisation to the IMO with which the discussions were being had. However, he decided to do that. Maitiú Ó Tuathail has made claims to others in the past that his intention was to undermine or destroy the IMO. Seriously, this is not as simple as a junior official. The Tánaiste was the Head of Government. This is insiders. This is old boys' club. This is not something that one just apologises for and try to make excuses that this was a part of an ongoing engagement. We now know there was no engagement.

This was a matter of favours for friends. It is simply unacceptable and I do not buy the Tánaiste's analysis.

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