Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The other irony is that in the course of this controversy, the only names that have been bandied about, and with wild abandon, have been the names of the two Garda whistleblowers. They have had comments made on them during committee proceedings by, among others, the Garda Commissioner. My colleague Deputy Sean Fleming referred to some of those remarks. Yet we had to hear from the whistleblower in private session, not least because of an utterly contrived political atmosphere of which the Minister, Deputy Howlin, was part and parcel.

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