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- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Let me put on the record of the House, finally, that with regard to the actual - if we call it that - legal strategy, it is yet to be determined what precisely that was. What that email had was an indication of counsel objecting at a particular point in a commission of investigation. What the Charleton tribunal is doing is examining the whole scenario-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: It is examining the whole scenario and, of course, in due process, what that legal strategy was will fully emerge. That is a task of the Charleton tribunal, which was set up, and we are not in a position to determine that here today or, indeed, on any other day because the Charleton tribunal is the place where all of this information is going to emerge in its full complexity and where...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: I thank Deputy Harty for those questions. I was taking questions earlier in regard to jobs growth and one of the key points, of course, is that the majority of the jobs that are now being created are in regional areas. The mid-west is one of the fastest growing regions in the country. We had the jobs announcement which I attended in Limerick a couple of weeks ago, where Regeneron announced...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Sorry, I did inform the Taoiseach about the email on the Monday.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: No.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: Deputy McDonald should not malign me either. I will not take a lecture from her on due process and fairness. I have always supported due process in every situation. In fact, it has been a hallmark of the way I approached this entire issue. I have been providing answers. As the Taoiseach said yesterday, I am not trying to hide anything. I was not part of any conspiracy to undermine...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: -----because of the general discussions and controversy to ask if there was anything I needed to know.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: I would just make that point. Deputy McDonald spoke about the email that came in and asked why it was not found. I raised that question when I met officials from the Department this week.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: In relation to sending it, the first point I made to the Department when I had contact about this was to ask if it had been sent to the Charlton tribunal and to say that I felt it should be sent, as did my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Charlie Flanagan. I did say that it should be referred and it has been referred. To say that I did not act is not correct. I did...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: That would have been illegal. It would have been a criminal act for me to try to influence the legal strategy of An Garda Síochána. What I did do was to act on behalf of whistleblowers continuously, as did this Government and the previous one. I acted by setting up the tribunal. I acted by referring how An Garda Síochána was dealing with whistleblowers to the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: I am not sticking to any script.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: I thank Deputy O'Callaghan. There are a lot of questions there. I want to be absolutely clear that the first time that I knew about the email was last Thursday when I was in contact with the Department. As I have said on the record, that was the first time that I heard that this email existed - the very first time. Deputy O'Callaghan is absolutely inaccurate in stating that I did...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: There were no efforts being made to suppress that email, none whatsoever.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: There were no efforts to suppress that email by me.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: There were no efforts to suppress it.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: There were no efforts made by me. I am speaking for myself.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: I am speaking for myself. There were no efforts. I do not believe there were by other people either.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: There was a process being followed. I was informed. Remember I have not been in the Department for five and a half months.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: There was a process being followed in the Department in relation to the email which I hope I will have time to put on the record. For Deputy O'Callaghan to say that the Taoiseach came in here and misled the Dáil, the Taoiseach acted on the information that he had at the time-----
- Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2017)
Frances Fitzgerald: -----and fully put on the record all information that he had. When I spoke with the Department on the Thursday, I did not actually know when it had been discovered in the Department. I assumed it was fairly close to when I had been told on the Thursday.