Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In his reply to Deputy Bríd Smith the Taoiseach said that Shane O'Farrell would be alive today if avoidable events had not happened. Let us put it directly; he would be alive today if gardaí did their job. We have no less than 24 pieces of criminal justice legislation currently under consideration in this Dáil session. We will have a lot of extra laws but in this case we are talking about enforcement.

The Taoiseach referred to the publication of the GSOC report. I have read the GSOC report; it is in the public domain but to put it mildly it is a joke. The Taoiseach knows that anybody who reads the GSOC report will readily conclude that the only way to the bottom of this catastrophic catalogue of failures is with an independent public inquiry. The Taoiseach's predecessor did not rule this out. Will the Taoiseach rule it in? Will he commit to an independent public inquiry?

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