Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

We have seen some very interesting Garda directives which came out around the time the whistleblowing gardaí went, as they are lawfully entitled to do, to talk to a Member of the Oireachtas. None of those whistleblowers talked to the press or engaged in any breaches like that but they are entitled to talk to a Member of the Oireachtas. When they did so, and it became public, Garda directives were issued basically instructing them on data protection, not giving information to third parties, how they handle PULSE information and so on, which created in our opinion a type of chilling effect. Presumably, it could also impact on the information those gardaí would give to people such as the witnesses. It was a great deal of content that would have a cross-over with the witnesses, and that is a very serious deviation.