Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left) | Oireachtas source

This issue will not go away. My point about no serious recommendations being made must be seen in the context of the decision by the review panel to recommend that the Garda make a report on serious complaints about malpractice in the Garda. After 18 months, the panel recommended not that the case be re-investigated but that the Garda issue a report. I have in mind cases such as the murder of Baiba Saulite, the anniversary of which will take place next month. One of the gardaí involved in the complaint made repeated requests to the review mechanism seeking to furnish it with corroborative evidence to support his contention that this young woman and mother would not have been murdered if the Garda had acted appropriately and joined the dots in the previous crimes committed against Ms Saulite and her solicitor, Mr. John Hennessy. Serious and well-substantiated allegations were made, yet the panel did not even ask to see this corroborative evidence. How could this possibly be a serious investigation to have something done?

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