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 | | ...Meanwhile, the two politicians involved, the Wexford Labour TD, Mr Brendan Howlin, and the former Mayo Fine Gael TD and current senator, Mr Jim Higgins, remain adamant that they will not meet the Garda request that they hand over telephone and fax records of contacts with their sources. |
 | | Mr Howlin and Mr Higgins, as their respective parties' justice spokesmen, alerted the then minister for justice, Mr O'Donoghue, to information they had received about the alleged corruption. |
 | | Describing the request as "extraordinary," Mr Howlin said yesterday: "What is at stake here is whether members of the public have a right to communicate with their elected representatives in the national parliament without fear of personal cost or not. |
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