Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Martin knows that, yet he asked me why I did not ring the Commissioner.

Second, the Commissioner did write to the Secretary General under the relevant section of the Act introduced by the former Minister, Mr. McDowell, which brings it to a different level. The requirement of the first line of that letter was to bring this to the notice of the Minister for Justice and Equality. Had that happened, the Minister for Justice and Equality would have acted upon it. When the Secretary General attended the meeting on the Monday and went to speak to the Commissioner to give him my view that this was a serious matter, he knew he had been written to by the Commissioner of the Garda. He knew because it had been received ten days before that in the Department of Justice and Equality. As I said today in my brief contribution here, I found it absolutely incredible that this situation applied.

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