Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The chairperson did not paint the same rosy picture that the Minister has painted. Sadly, by way of a couple of examples, GSOC has waited two years on documents from the whistleblowers, Nicky Kehoe and Keith Harrison, after asking for them. The documents in respect of one of them have eventually arrived. The chairperson says in public that she supports whistleblowers. I ask the Minister what has the chairperson done to demonstrate her support for whistleblowers? Has she telephoned them? Has she written to them? Has she met them? They do not feel her support. They do not think that she has any appetite for what they have to say. We all must agree at this stage that whistleblowers are the key. If it were not for Maurice McCabe and John Wilson, we probably still would not even have a Policing Authority, even if it is not as independent as we would like it to be. We would not even be here without whistleblowers, and still they are not getting the respect they are due.

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