‘I don’t know what your problem is with this, Sean’
: Ever since you put out that written Dáil reply last week about the Centre for Public Inquiry and its executive director Frank Connolly, you’ve been taking some criticism. The Irish Times on Friday saying there was a smell off the affair, the Tribune yesterday saying what Michael McDowell did under the cloak of Dáil privilege undermines the independence of our justice system and steps dangerously close to the creation of a police state... What exactly was your justification?
: Well, first of all, I want to say that I answered a question which was put to me by Deputy Finian McGrath and he asked me to comment on recent attempts, as he put it, to undermine the CPI, this is the body for which Mr Connolly was working as its chief executive, and I answered the question directly and I stand by every single word I said. It is the plain unvarnished truth, as far as I am concerned.
