Seanad debates

Thursday, 15 May 2003

Adjournment Matter. - Morris Tribunal.

 

I invite the Senator to reconsider the simple question of how I could possibly prejudge the issue and say – adopting all the Senator's prejudgments in this case – that one person has been badly done by and has been a victim of a plot by the State, while the other is alleged to have been a perpetrator. How could I give legal assistance to the person who claims to be the victim and give no assistance to the person who is claimed by the victim to be the perpetrator? How could I defend this decision in the courts or anywhere else? It is intellectually indefensible and legally unsustainable and I do not propose to make that mistake. If I adopted the Senator's suggestion, I would end up in the High Court defending the indefensible.

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