Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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I am not nitpicking here but am raising this issue because confidence in the system for serving gardaí and the public will hinge not just on the capacity to investigate but also a willingness to investigate. That comes back to this notion of the public interest, what it is and who decides. Obviously there will be a discretionary element to it. We go to the trouble of defining all manner of things at the beginning of this legislation, including "employee", "employer" and "educational establishment" which are in common parlance, so ---