Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In another case, a man was savagely beaten and the case was not entered in the PULSE system for nine months. That is the point. We can dress up the issue or create smokescreens all we like, but the quality of internal investigations is at stake.

It is not unprecedented in terms of the Morris tribunal or beyond belief that things could have gone wrong. The cases involved are grave. I sent that information to the Taoiseach rather than go down a different route and let it end up in the public domain, which would have been wrong and prejudicial to the rights and entitlements of other people who are mentioned in the dossier. I did not do that. I studiously avoided doing so. That is the reason for the decision taken by the Taoiseach.

In terms of the approach of the Minister, Deputy Shatter, attacking people is his standard operating procedure. The Minister saw nothing wrong with his using a confidential brief from the Garda Commissioner to falsely attack a Deputy of this House. He still does not see any wrong in that. The Minister has expressed disinterest in how information about a Deputy was leaked to try to discredit him. I could go on in terms of the Minister's own situation in relation to breath testing and so on but I will not do so.

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