Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

At that time I was Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. He wrote a letter to the then Minister, Alan Shatter, who referred it to the Garda Commissioner. I was looking in detail at the file today. It was an anonymous complaint with a series of allegations which had been forwarded. It was referred to the Garda Commissioner. In the timeline published the other day, the Garda Commissioner responded just after I had become Minister for Justice and Equality with a detailed letter. This anonymous complaint was about a whole lot of different issues in the western region. They were very varied. The checkpoints were just one of them.

She gave a very detailed report on the actions that had been taken and the investigation that had been done. The person had identified them as a reserve. A meeting took place with all the reserves. Every opportunity was given to people to raise issues and then I went back and asked if further action needed to be taken, and that was up to March 2015.

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