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

I cannot confirm who was or was not briefed over that period of time. I am sure individuals will do that as they can, based on their recollections.

In relation to documents, we are assembling those documents now in the Attorney General's office and the Department of Health. I have not seen them. I have seen one or two but certainly not all of them. When we have assembled them all we will put any that we can into the public domain. That will be the right thing to do. We will not do it in a drip-drip fashion, which is what is happening in the newspapers at the moment. In my view, that is creating a false impression.

The allegation here is very clear. It is that four or five Governments, four or five Attorneys General, any number of Ministers and former Ministers, some of whom are now in the Government and some in the Opposition, and dozens of officials all conspired to deny people refunds they were entitled to. That is as far-fetched as it sounds. It is not what happened.

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