John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Sergeant Maurice McCabe issue and the general whistleblowers issue has given a clear indication to us that there is corruption and poor management within the Garda force and the Tánaiste does not need a report to do because they have given us that information. What we are now witnessing is the catastrophic failure of management of An Garda Síochána. I believe that because the management is central to this and it cannot oversee the type of reform that is necessary. Calls have been made for those people to stand aside or to give others a chance to come in and manage things better. That is what needs to be done. There are a million cases and the Tánaiste cannot convince me that throughout the State there is not a number of gardaí who have the information in respect of all of this. How can the Tánaiste expect the current Commissioner and those around her to find the information and bring it forward in a public way when the information was there for so long and ignored? It was a cover-up.

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