Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As the Taoiseach rightly reminded us, the Cabinet sub-committee on justice reform is to implement the statutory basis for the establishment of the Garda authority. He stated that this is a first for Irish policing. It is not a first for Irish policing because there has been a police authority in the North since-----

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