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

I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. The Taoiseach will agree that the Cabinet committee on justice reform was established because the Government had allowed the sector to slide into crisis after crisis and was a sign that the Government was looking for a way out. In particular the background to the justice reform committee was the way the Taoiseach and the then Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, behaved in embroiling the Garda Síochána in an unprecedented crisis and the effective removal of a Garda Commissioner. Like the Moriarty tribunal, the Taoiseach is keen to bury any inconvenient investigation, and does so with sustained energy. However, many people believe the Taoiseach and his staff are already busy spinning regarding the Fennelly commission. We read about sections of the report in the Irish Independentlast Saturday, while the former Garda Commissioner, Mr. Martin Callinan, is meant to be on holidays and has not received his part of the report yet. Is the Taoiseach concerned over these selective leaks? They seem to be leaked in such a way as to be spun positively in the Taoiseach’s direction.

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