Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

Lest there be any misunderstanding, I also intend to implement all of the areas of reform Mr. Justice Morris mentioned in his first report and on which Deputy Commissioner Fitzgerald has provided working papers on reform. Most of them do not require statutory reform but regulatory reform.

I have realised, and I ask every Member of the House to realise, that the revolution in culture in the Garda Síochána will not be contained simply in an Act of Parliament. It requires new management methods, new methods of accountability, intensification of civilisation at some levels and the like.

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