Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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It all needs to be looked at. I hope that, with the new legislation, it will be. If from a corporate point of view the new organisation does not consider this, we are at nothing. What happened in Limerick must never happen again, and what is happening at the moment must not happen again. The way these people are being treated is not acceptable.

To refer to what Deputy Dillon said, what happened in the coroner’s court is not acceptable. It is in the public domain, as said earlier. What happened was that a member of An Garda effectively found out he was being pursued at the coroner's court through the inquest procedure. That is not acceptable. The impact on his life and that of his family must be considered. The manner of communications in question must not be allowed. The man was not even charged. That is the reason I was able to bring it up in the Dáil. He was not charged at the time. There was a gap between the case being publicly known and his being charged. That is no way to operate. How did that happen? How was it allowed?