Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This is spiralling. This is going to go on every week. We are going through this every week until the Minister comes in. The Taoiseach seems to be under some misapprehension that this will just float away. This is going nowhere. Everybody now has concerns in regard to what happened here. We need to know what happened here. This will not just disappear. Members will ask parliamentary questions and we will get specific answers because the Government will have no choice but to give them since we will make sure they are in order.

As this information drips and drips, with the help, dare I say it, of the media, I can tell the Taoiseach the issue for him will not be Deputy Helen McEntee, the issue will be the future of his Government. He is the one who is covering this and ensuring we do not get accountability. This now is about him. Make the decision now. If the Taoiseach does not allow her to come in here, this will now be about him as much as about the Minister, Deputy McEntee, and about his decision-making in not allowing her to come in.

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