Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not doubt anything the Commissioner has said. The problem is that the endorsement is coming from the Garda Commissioner. That is the problem. The Commissioner said that, as far as he is concerned, assistant Commissioner O'Mahony is a man of fantastic integrity, he is this and that and has got a tremendous record, etc. You are the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána. It is in your interest and in the interest of everybody sitting beside him that he produces a report which exonerates and is favourable to the Garda. What we need is someone outside investigating it who does not have a pedigree in the Garda Síochána. I do not doubt for one moment anything the Commissioner has said and I do not doubt the Commissioner in any way but it is a principle involved. For it to be a credible report, it has to come from an outsider. What I do not understand is that the Garda Commissioner does not see that.