"Not an abuse of anything", "he does not feel that this is a resigning matter", "nothing unusual about the provision of additional funding". These are three statements concerning the actions of the coalition government over the last month. Bertie Ahern does not feel that using Foreign Affairs diplomatic bags to distribute Fianna Fáil election literature is an abuse of power, even though Brian Cowen, Foreign Affairs Minister, has now initiated a review of the practice. No other political parties were invited to use the service for distributing their election literature. Free article