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

I repeat that Sergeant McCabe was invited to meet with a member of the investigation team on 24 April and he found that invitation alarming. I do not know why that was the case. Common sense would suggest to me that there may be fault on both sides. Common sense suggests that someone who had such a commitment to this issue, knowing an investigation was taking place and having been advised in the context of ongoing correspondence by an official of my Department that if he had further evidence or information, he should give it to the Garda authorities, would do so. He did not, however, and I do not see how that can be described as co-operating with the investigation. Equally, however, I do not understand why, as the Deputy put it, a telephone call was not made or he was not asked to come along to an interview. I think, frankly, there was fault on both sides.

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