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Voices in the House: It is a deplorable act to try to jump off a few religious organisations and make them bankrupt, and that…

Voices in the House: It is a deplorable act to try to jump off a few religious organisations and make them bankrupt, and that is really what Deputy Rabbitte is about. - The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern

Sounds naughty? A cheap shot.

- Mr Rabbitte

If files relevant to any other tribunal or major investigative processes taking place in this State . . . were missing, it would be a national scandal.

- Mr Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, Sinn Féin, on the Dublin and Monaghan bombing files, missing from the Department of Justice

He is probably correct about other tribunals, but I find that any information of a confidential nature supplied by me to those tribunals seems to end up in the newspapers, and so it is obviously not a case of its being lost.

- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern

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