Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

In my contribution today, I deliberately decided not to go through the gross negligence of the then Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and his Attorney General on the foundation of these matters. I want to look to the future and not to the past, but I also want to look at today. I expect that a Minister who wallows in his own self-importance would accept what I am saying as valid, that he might say when he wants to bring these matters to a conclusion, and that he have seizure of the importance of the matters that I am raising, rather than say in a childish way that we did nothing ten years ago. His party and Fianna Fáil have been in power for nearly ten years. He should take responsibility and understand the disquiet of the public about the failures in proper accountability within the Garda Síochána.

We are bringing about reform and it is coming painfully slowly. We have another degree of reform to achieve, notably the establishment——

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