Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry to be a little tedious on this but I come back to the point that it is not for me to express views other than the views that the commissioners expressed to me. I come back to what Kieran FitzGerald said on "Prime Time". I think it was on at 9.30 p.m. that Tuesday within an hour and half of so of my addressing the Dáil. He said, and I am paraphrasing this, that he was happy to repeat that people are pointing fingers at the Garda and, "May I say it is unfair to point fingers at ... [the Garda] on the basis of anything we have said or done", and then they went on to say, "The public discourse seems to be pointing in the direction of finding the guards guilty of this thing when we are saying quite clearly and categorically and in no uncertain terms, we found no evidence to point to that direction". He did not even say there was some evidence that was there before the section 102 investigation but it proved to be incorrect. He said-----