The Moriarty tribunal has found that former minister for communications Michael Lowry secured the 1995 mobile phone licence competition for Denis O’Brien’s Esat Digifone. Mr Justice Michael Moriarty also found that Lowry interfered in a rent arbitration process in an attempt to secure a benefit for the businessman Ben Dunne. Both Mr O Brien and Mr Dunne gave the former Fine Gael Minister "political donations" at the time.
Lets put this into context.
While holding the Ministry portfolio of Transport, Energy and Communications, Michael Lowry appears to carried some pretty big political favours for some pretty powerful and wealthy friends. The Moriarty tribunal certainly paints a picture that would indicate that the former Fine Gael Minister was bribed. Michael Lowry was sitting at the cabinet table of the last Fine Gael/Labour party coalition government. Sitting very close to him were Richard Bruton, Brendan Howlin, Ruairi Quinn, Michael Noonan and our new Taoiseach, Enda Kenny.
Enda Kenny.
The man who promised us a new type of politics during the last election campaign.
A man who led Fine Gael to an impressive victory on the promise of political reform and an end to all political corruption.
Today Mr Kenny's minions sneered at representatives of Sinn Féin, Fianna Fail and the United Left Alliance when they asked the simple questions; questions that had been poised only weeks ago by the Fine Gael party at our last government.
Was Deputy Lowry acting alone?
Did his cabinet colleagues have no idea of what was taking place?
And if they didn't, arnt they still guilty of the crime of total incompetence and being completely unfit to serve in a government cabinet?
Six members of our new government sat at that cabinet table with Michael Lowry.
I don't see any reason for Fine Gael to sneer now.
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