Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

All the Deputies opposite have made up their minds a long time ago. Were they not holding press conferences in Buswell's Hotel, at which material that is protected under the Data Protection Act and which would reveal the identities of individuals was about to be revealed breathlessly by them all in a great panoply of publicity and excitement to the assembled media until they suddenly realised they might have a problem in respect of data protection?

Part of the problem is that although it is important we get to the truth, those investigating it must be given the time to do so. The matter should not be pre-judged. The Deputy in her comments regularly assumes that large numbers of members of the Garda force are engaged in some sort of conspiracy or are corrupt. She should not do so and I reject that.

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