Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs

Photo of Gerard CraughwellGerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I did not intend asking anything about the Garda Síochána. On 24 August, it was reported in The Irish Timesthat the Minister, in an interview with 96FM in Cork, said that it does not matter if one is a Commissioner, a President, a Taoiseach, a Minister or anybody else for that matter, and the same rules should apply to everybody in Ireland.

The Minister went on to say, "The idea that certain politicians see themselves as different or that the rules don't apply to them...". I will not continue reading it but, clearly, by August, the Minister saw any breach of Covid as a most serious breach and that nobody was above the law. Does the Minister agree with that?

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