Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

There has been one scandal after another: Maurice McCabe, John Wilson, Dave Taylor, Nicky Keogh, Keith Harrison, the bugging of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, the tapping of calls from Garda stations and now the falsification of Garda records on an industrial scale across the country. It underlines the strength of the socialist demand that there be a sharp break with the policing model in this country and that it be replaced by a new model of democratic community control over policing. Twenty-seven days from the biggest political trial seen in this State since 1970, the credibility of An Garda Síochána - a key part of the prosecution in the Jobstown trials - is at an all-time low.

When it was reported to the Tánaiste that the southern area audit had been completed and that it was sufficiently worrying to prompt a national audit, did she ask what was the scale of the discrepancies in that audit? Did she ask that question?

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