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

As long as we are a democracy, people will be allowed to speak freely in our Parliament and I will continue to do so. The Deputy has some brass neck in this regard when we consider the Jonathan Dowdall donation, which was a personal donation to the Deputy, not to her party, and the fact her party had to file its own declarations on three occasions in 2020, something the Minister has not had to do.

What is a distraction is this snide reference to Mr. Stone receiving public contracts from the Government. The Deputy knows as well as I do that Ministers have no role in awarding commercial contracts to businesses, and trying to throw that out there under cover of privilege is a pure distraction. The reason the Minister and his agents did not declare the donations is they did not know they had happened. They did not receive or give the donation. No money was exchanged-----

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