Séamus Healy (Tipperary, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

The phrase "grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented" comes to mind in respect of this issue.

In the wake of scandal after scandal and cover-up after cover-up, systemic malfunction after systemic malfunction and systemic failure after systemic failure, I ask the Tánaiste whether a root and branch reform and restructuring of An Garda Síochána is now urgently needed. Is it not time that the Commissioner and the top tier of the Garda is removed immediately? Is it not time that a Patten-type commission be put in place to reform and restructure An Garda Síochána? Will the Tánaiste give us an assurance here tonight that no rank and file gardaí will be scapegoated by any investigation arising from this issue?

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