Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Ceann Comhairle) | Oireachtas source

It is my desire to ensure that every leader has an opportunity to raise matters of important public concern and Deputy Daly is doing that. However, we have absolute privilege and we should be very careful how we use that absolute privilege. It has been a long-standing precedent that we do not make allegations against people outside the House. The Deputy referred to protected disclosures and they are certainly in the public media but she has made specific allegations about a committee being misled by the Garda Commissioner. I think that is inappropriate, it is not something we should do and it is certainly not something the Deputy should now repeat.

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