Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I do not wish to comment on the individual case, but there is a system of sergeants and inspectors whose functions include ensuring that people are at their post, are sober and so on. It goes without saying that if any superior officer had any inkling that an incident of that kind was taking place, he or she would have acted immediately. The circumstances were extremely unusual and most people in this House would not even have dared to write them in fiction. However, that is how things turned out.

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