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Brian Stack record correction

Summary

The Leas-Cheann Comhairle said Leaders and the Taoiseach needed to keep within time, then the Taoiseach announced a correction to the Dáil record concerning remarks he had made about the Brian Stack murder case after receiving a letter from Deputy Gerry Adams.

Pat the Cope Gallagher An Leas-Cheann Comhairle Fianna Fáil

If Leaders or the Taoiseach need more time, then we will have to consider that by way of an amendment to Standing Orders. I have to consider all Members of the House who require an opportunity to ask questions on promised legislation, which we will deal with in a moment. Before that, I understand that the Taoiseach wishes to make an announcement.

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Enda Kenny The Taoiseach Fine Gael

I wish to make a short correction. On 6 December last, in response to a question from Deputy Micheál Martin on the case of the murder of Brian Stack, I said that it was "beyond comprehension that a Member of the House can drive someone in a van with blacked out windows to meet another person to talk about who had shot his father, that the names are given to the Garda Commissioner and that the son of the murdered man says he did not supply the names". I received a letter from Deputy Gerry Adams saying that I should correct the Dáil record. I now do so. I understand from the statements made by Deputy Adams himself that he drove the Stack brothers in his own car to a point where they then travelled in a blacked out van, in which I assume he was the passenger. I wish to correct the record of the Dáil to the effect that Deputy Adams did not drive the blacked out van but he did travel in it.

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