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

How can we be expected to have confidence in a Minister for Justice and Equality who will not be publicly interviewed about a major crisis in his area? How can we be expected to have confidence in a Minister for Justice and Equality when the Taoiseach left him in the dark for 24 hours about a major issue concerning his Department? How can we be expected to have confidence in a Minister for Justice and Equality who agrees to pressurise a Garda Commissioner into resignation and thinks this is not important enough to discuss in the Dáil? We have been accused of playing politics but the real politics in this Chamber are being played by Government parties which have put their own interests ahead of demanding even basic accountability from one of its own Ministers.

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