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

A pattern has been established within the Government, both among members of the Cabinet and on the backbenches. The Minister has moved to minimise and trivialise the alleged bugging of the GSOC offices. He took precisely the same approach to the Garda whistleblowers. While that is his form, he does not and did not act alone because it is now clear that the Alan Shatter approach to the administration of justice is shared by members of the Government, on both the Front Bench and the backbenches, and that he has their full support. Apparently, members of the Government believe he is the appropriate person to draw up terms of reference for the inquiry and to whom it should report.

I say to the two Ministers sitting on the benches opposite-----

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