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

The position is simply that important changes were required to address issues that had arisen, as I made explicit and as the O'Mahoney report detailed, and in respect of which proper procedures were not complied with in some instances. In this regard, disciplinary action has been taken against some members of the Garda. I described as exotic some of the substantive decisions made where procedures were properly complied with. However, some of the more serious allegations that were made - for example, that road fatalities resulted and people lost their lives because of Garda failures in this area - proved to be untrue and unsubstantiated. One of the individuals to whom the Deputy referred retired from the force and was not pushed out, as the Deputy put it.

See this speech in context