Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact that the Tánaiste acknowledges that the independent policing authority can examine the matter. She seemed to be uncertain about that when questions arose previously. The independent policing authority has both a right and a duty to examine the matter, and I am glad that the Tánaiste acknowledges that should happen because it is appropriate.

What we want to know, however, and I think what the public wants to know, is what the Tánaiste's plan is regarding, as she said, a very complex and a very wide-ranging report. The Garda Commissioner has a duty to report to her, and the House wants to know about matters which have now gone into the public domain. We had a discussion about section 11 of the Act. We were not talking about section 11 of the Act. We were essentially talking about the legal strategies which the legal representatives for the Commissioner undertook. We want to explore that and get answers to some of the material and some of the facts, suggestions or claims surrounding these legal strategies that have now gone into the public domain-----

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