Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister says she referred it to GSOC but she will not give it the papers. The Minister knows at this stage that Commissioner O'Sullivan questioned the motivation, credibility and integrity of Maurice McCabe. Her legal team claimed that at a meeting in Mullingar with a superintendent and another garda, Maurice McCabe had behaved in such a manner. The legal team for Maurice McCabe asked the legal team for the Commissioner to go outside the room and check with the Commissioner if she wanted to stick to that story. He came back into the room and said, "Right the way through." What happened then? Maurice McCabe produced the tape and the whole thing was dropped. If the Commissioner had nothing to do with the fabrication of the contents of what was said at the Mullingar meeting, why did she not act against the two gardaí in question? The Minister might be interested to know that when the superintendent in question, Noel Cunningham, heard that the Commissioner had referred the issue to GSOC, he said, "Nóirín has thrown me under the bus." It is plain as black and white.

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