If the Ceann Comhairle wishes, I will rephrase it to say that I think there is very clear evidence, but, of course, it is not for me to decide, that the then Taoiseach may well have breached section 7(2) of the Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act which says that someone cannot give information that they obtain-----

-----as a result of their high office to someone else who benefits from it.

Did the Deputy get a visit to the constituency?

This Finance Bill underlines yet again that we have a Government of millionaires looking after the billionaires. Not only are we in the middle of a health crisis, but let us not forget the housing crisis. Yet in this Finance Bill the Government proposes to extend a tax break for major developers which actually encourages them to hoard land for even longer. The Government stamp duty refund scheme proposals will not only hand over more money to some of the richest developers in this country, it also allows them to co…

We are now approaching the sixth anniversary of the tragic death of Jonathan Corrie outside the gates of Dáil Éireann, a victim of the housing and homelessness crisis. At that time everyone promised that the death of Jonathan would be a wake-up call and that the Government would finally realise that urgent action was needed. The Taoiseach himself condemned at the time the inaction that had led to the homelessness crisis, but on his watch as Taoiseach the situation is even worse. In the past ten days alone, five peo…

Has the Taoiseach had correspondence or communication with Boris Johnson on the refusal of entry into Ireland of 525 people, according to an article in Vice magazine in 2019, solely or partially on the grounds that they may travel onwards to Britain or Northern Ireland? What appears to be happening is that in the context of a Tory Brexit, immigration rules in Britain are becoming increasingly racist, and nakedly so, and increasingly restrictive. The rules are being applied, de facto , in Ireland in the way the comm…

It was published a month later.

Is it accurate to describe Maitiú Ó Tuathail as a friend of the Tánaiste and someone who supported his campaign for leadership of Fine Gael?

That is fine, I thank the Tánaiste.

That is fine -----

That is fine. I will move to my next question. Is it the Tánaiste's contention that the fact that Maitiú Ó Tuathail was his friend and political supporter was purely incidental, that it was simply coincidence that he got this document from the Tánaiste and that no matter who the president of the NAGP was, the Tánaiste would have given them the document in this way?

Will the Taoiseach answer the question? Is it purely a coincidence that this friend and political supporter of the Tánaiste's received the document or would the president of the NAGP have got it no matter who? "Yes" or "No" will do.

That is fine.

If he received the document in his position as president of the NAGP, why did the Tánaiste send it to his home address rather than to the office of the president of the NAGP?

The Tánaiste talks of doing it more formally. Earlier, he mentioned the way to do that would have been to get Dr. Ó Tuathail in and go through it line by line over the course of two hours or so. The Tánaiste contends that he would have been able to do that without the permission of the IMO, that even though the Government was in the final stages of finalising an agreement with the IMO, that it was completely open to the Tánaiste to give it to the leader of a rival organisation and a personal friend. Is that the Tán…

So the Tánaiste did not need the permission of the IMO to share it with someone else, with the leader of a rival organisation. The Tánaiste is not saying that is the mistake he made.

The Tánaiste thinks it would have been perfectly okay to bring him in, go through the contents of the document without the permission of the IMO. He did not think that would have been breaking any confidence with the IMO?

Does the Tánaiste understand why Maitiú Ó Tuathail in a conversation with Chay Bowes, unfortunately using very vulgar and inappropriate language, said in relation to the Tánaiste that "he would be [unfortunately] raped if the IMO lads knew he was giving me shit", meaning material like this? That is that the Tánaiste would be in trouble with the IMO if it knew he was giving Ó Tuathail this material. Is it accurate that he would have been in trouble if the IMO knew?

I asked is it accurate that the Tánaiste would have been in trouble if the IMO had known he was giving the NAGP this material.

Does the Tánaiste accept that conversations from the inner sanctum of the NAGP suggest that regardless of the Tánaiste's story now, it certainly did not think it got the document in some official capacity? One person wrote, commenting to Maitiú Ó Tuathail, "where did you rob it? Did anyone see you? Did you make a clean getaway Matt?" That person did not perceive that it had it in any professional capacity.