Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage

3:30 pm

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There could be trivial stuff. What is interesting is that section 91 refers to the death of a person in Garda custody. The Minister just said that some of us might not be happy with these amendments because they would prevent people from coming to us. I am speaking for myself. I have heard about different issues from other Members. Since all these issues arose concerning the file presented by Deputy Micheál Martin to the Taoiseach on 20 April 2014, the Garda McCabe case, the stories that flowed from that and the stories that were in the media prior to that, many members of the public have come to us as public representatives with other issues of complaint. One such family came to me. They were the wife, mother and father of a person who died in Garda custody.

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