FG to drive debate on O’Dea court statement

UNDER-FIRE Defence Minister Willie O’Dea will be at the mercy of the Dáil next week when TDs will vote on whether they have confidence in him to continue in Cabinet.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said next Tuesday and Wednesday his party will use its speaking time to debate the minister’s admission that a High Court affidavit he signed was wrong.

He put Mr O’Dea on the spot after the minister delivered a five-minute Dáil statement explaining how he wrongly linked Sinn Féin councillor Maurice Quinlivan to a brothel in Limerick city.