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

I thank the acting Garda Commissioner for being here. It seems to me the same criteria were used to open as to close. We are still considering which six to open although Stepaside is already agreed in isolation. The acting Commissioner was giving us a report and then he was not. The Secretary General of the Department, which is not the acting Commissioner's fault, is telling us we can have the report but it may have redactions, presumably if some of that information is unworthy of the Committee of Public Accounts or public consumption. I am bound to say and it is not necessarily a reflection on the acting Commissioner that this is totally unacceptable. It is making a mockery of transparency in a public process and sadly it does not augur well, perhaps through no fault of the acting Commissioner's, for the overall image of the Garda in a new era.