Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach has not answered any of my questions. While the Government sat on the O'Neill report - the Taoiseach has still not told me when he intends to publish it - GSOC had to go to the High Court to force the Commissioner to hand over the transcripts of the O'Higgins report. It is almost eight months since the Tánaiste requested GSOC to investigate the same. Only last week the Minister received a letter from a whistleblower regarding a witness statement in an assault case being doctored by gardaí. The background to the assault case related to the planting of drugs by a garda. I ask the Taoiseach again when he intends to publish the report. Does the Taoiseach intend to leave the Commissioner in place? It will be laughable if he does. If all is so well, as the Commissioner likes to tell us, can the Taoiseach or the Commissioner explain to me why so many whistleblowers are out sick and why they are not at work? Why does Nóirín O'Sullivan not ring the whistleblowers? How is it that she has never even rung them? She has not rung any of them. Would the Taoiseach consider asking the Commissioner to ring the whistleblowers who she says she cares so much about? It is a bit scary that what she says in public is one thing but the reality on the ground could not be much different.

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