Seanad debates
Thursday, 24 October 2002
Adjournment Matter. - Passports for Investment Scheme.
As I pointed out in the other House, no departmental file is likely to carry any explicit evidence of gross impropriety or corruption by a member of Government. Nonetheless, in the light of what we now know from the proceedings and reports of intervening tribunals, serious questions concerning the role of the then Taoiseach, Mr. Charles Haughey, would be raised in the minds of any fair person examining the file with the benefit of hindsight. I am not in a position to supply any explanation from the contents of the file I have examined for the then Taoiseach's apparent interest in having the case processed with unusual haste. These may be matters on which the Moriarty tribunal may be able to cast useful light.
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