Departmental Offices
Dail Éireann — 2024-03-20
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

Throughout the referendum campaign, Aontú said that the care amendment was designed by the Department of Finance. We said the wording proposed in the referendum was designed to protect budgets. A leak of the Attorney General's advice and responses to freedom of information, FOI, requests that have subsequently been published by the Department of Finance basically give credibility and weight to our challenge during the referendum. The note to the Department of Finance said that the language was intended to avoid concrete and mandatory obligations to provide support to those who needed it. The advice of the Attorney General also said that there was no certainty about what was meant by "durable relationships" and that it would lead to an increase in litigation in the future. Will the Taoiseach make sure there is an independent investigation into the leaking of the Attorney General's advice before the referendum? Will he hold an independent investigation into the fact that the Minister, Deputy Roderic O'Gorman, misled and misinformed the Dáil and the Irish people about the advice he got from the Attorney General and call for his resignation?

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Sitting date: 2024-03-20