Questions keep coming as the Maurice McCabe plot thickens

More questions are cropping up all the time as the Garda whistleblower affair becomes murkier by the minute but here are a few that shouldn’t have to wait for the Charleton Commission to find the answers.

Why did neither the Taoiseach nor the Tánaiste ask Katherine Zappone what happened at her meeting with Maurice McCabe?

As Children’s Minister with one key agency under her remit - Tusla - an obvious answer was that she was talking to him about only a child protection issue.