Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2020-07-15
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

I asked Deputy Cowen to share his personal data with me. To be fair to him, he did so in the end. I felt I needed that because I am here now accounting to the House. One moment it is being said that I know everything without seeing any PULSE file, the next moment when I do seek access to the PULSE file that is something that is terribly wrong as well. That is not fair or balanced. It is an issue of huge public controversy involving a Government Minister. Information pertaining to him was in the public domain that he did not have access to. If one accepts that, it logically follows that he should have access to it because other people are commenting on it and writing about it.

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Sitting date: 2020-07-15