Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

GSOC reported in 2013 and the Attorney General set up a working group in November of that year. The Garda Commissioner advised the Department of this by way of letter sent by courier over 16 days ago. Are we to believe the Minister knew about none of these events when, at the same time, a garda can pull alongside Deputy Mick Wallace at the Five Lamps, wag his finger at him for allegedly using a mobile phone while driving, and the Minister has possession of this information for it to be used inappropriately - as it was - on "Prime Time" on RTE? Is the Minister asking us to accept that, on the one hand, he acted in the way he has said and, on the other, that he did not know about the recording of telephone conversations at Garda stations?

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