Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Taoiseach for the information in respect of the Fennelly report. We await its imminent publication.

I could not agree more with the Taoiseach that trust, confidence, respect and pride are exactly what we need. Despite the Taoiseach's talk about commissions and restructuring, and his repeated assertions of a need for accountability and modernisation, his actions shout against those motivations. The Taoiseach is still wedded to the old way of doing things. That is the reality. The reason he is slow to relieve the Garda Commissioner of her duties is, I assume, a fear on his part of contagion. It is politics that is directing this matter. I cannot see any other rationale for it. The rationale of the Taoiseach's friend, Deputy Micheál Martin, is fear of an election - more politics.

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