Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

----- of what the connections and the communication to Sergeant McCabe were. Obviously Sergeant McCabe had a different perspective on that. The Minister, Deputy Shatter, will be answering questions again at the end of this series of statements. I welcome the statement from Sergeant McCabe in respect of the process that is now in place. Deputy Martin asked me the question yesterday, and I reiterate for him that the senior counsel will engage directly with Sergeant McCabe in this matter, which is of considerable importance.

Members may now have their say during the course of statements today and the Minister will answer questions at the end of that. We now have a criminal lawyer to look at and assess the investigative methods and bring back a recommendation, hopefully before Easter. Let us see what that is. It also means direct engagement with Sergeant McCabe in regard to the matters Deputy Martin presented to me, which in part have been investigated either by the Commissioner, GSOC or in some references to the DPP.

The Minister has set out his point of view, including the communications and chronology of events as followed by him. People often have differences of opinion about what statements can actually mean. The Minister has dealt with this in his statement this morning and again yesterday.

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