Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste talks of doing it more formally. Earlier, he mentioned the way to do that would have been to get Dr. Ó Tuathail in and go through it line by line over the course of two hours or so. The Tánaiste contends that he would have been able to do that without the permission of the IMO, that even though the Government was in the final stages of finalising an agreement with the IMO, that it was completely open to the Tánaiste to give it to the leader of a rival organisation and a personal friend. Is that the Tánaiste's contention?

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