Mr Ahern told the Dail on Wednesday he believed the governments' proposals over photographs continued "to represent a fair and reasonable judgment".

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It is not one based on an imagined straw poll of the partially informed hypothetical man on the street, but based on how a person of reasonable judgment, aware of all the facts, as well as how courts function, would decide.

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"It's reasonable for the Secretary of State, reading that judgment as whole, (to find) no serious default was disclosed, " Mr Maguire said.

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