Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

She was also correct to state that when the Garda Representative Association's spokesman spoke out against the cuts, the response of Deputy Niall Collins, who is now Fianna Fáil's justice spokesman, was to seek to have him silenced. Deputy Niall Collins called for the outgoing president of the Garda Representative Association, Mr. Michael O'Boyce, to be removed from the force by the then Garda Commissioner, Mr. Fachtna Murphy, for a speech which was not even delivered but in which it had been proposed to criticise the Fianna Fáil Government and its programme of cuts.

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