Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is a bit like a game. The Commissioner asked the Minister to refer the matter to GSOC. GSOC then asked the Commissioner for the transcript. The Commissioner said that under the 2004 Act she cannot give it to GSOC. GSOC then asked the Department of Justice and Equality for it. It used the same reason, namely, that under the 2004 Act and citing legal restrictions on disclosure it cannot give it to GSOC. What was the point of the Commissioner asking the Minister to ask GSOC to look into something if it could not get the transcript? There is no logic to that. Is the Minister telling me that under no circumstances could she, the Minister for Justice and Equality, who is the only person in this country who can hold the Garda Commissioner to account, possibly get the right to look at the transcript? If we want to know the truth about what happened, and we have been told by other sources what was in the transcript, surely she could get access to it if she sought the legal powers to so do.

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