Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I am not saying that, I am saying that the governance issues with which we are dealing and the atrophy of proper accountability within the force must have been present for at least the best part of two decades. I am the politician who is remedying it and there must be political accountability for all who held office, even in my party who were at the Cabinet table during some of these years, for the situation that existed at the time.

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