Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Is Mr Kelly wrong in what he said in the final two paragraphs of his statement, namely,, that there was a culture of "This will go away. Let's sit on it and suppress it.". To us, as members of the committee listening to Mr. Culhane's answers, that appears to be the case. It is a question of containment and suppression. The default position is "There is nothing to see here", until, in the event that a colleague is criminally investigated and found guilty for trying to uphold the law, a decision is made to come clean. Mr. Culhane calls it the environment. I call it the culture. The environment was twisted and corrupt and subversion was the order of the day.