Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The position our spokesperson and Sinn Féin have taken up is that the breach of the Minister’s office in declaring information given to him by a member of Garda Síochána should be subject to an independent inquiry. I asked earlier why this was not made the responsibility of the Garda Ombudsman. The way the Taoiseach has set this out could prejudice an inquiry which may be held in the future. I do not know if we can force that on the Government, but it certainly strikes me that we are going to have a discussion around all of the detail of this report and so forth when the crux of the issue is the way the Minister, as we see it, abused his office in using this confidential information to have a go at a political opponent.

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