Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Gardaí ought to have a degree of discretion and be able to exercise their common sense in these matters. What people want to know and be assured of and what we should all contribute to is that the law is applied fairly to everybody, that there is not some kind of inside track or some way whereby people who are favoured or in certain positions, whether they be public positions, celebrity positions or otherwise, can have their situation dealt with more favourably than anybody else.

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