Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach can talk about legislation until the cows come home, but until the Government starts engaging in enforcement, it is a waste of time. The Taoiseach made an unfair comment that I would make a judgment before I actually read the report. No, I did not, and I would not accuse him of it. What I will ask the Taoiseach to do is that I will give him the judge's statement on the day and he should read that, then read the ODCE report, and he should then tell me if this is an organisation that the Government should be reinforcing, because that is what the Government is doing. The Government is ignoring what has happened. It is ignoring the fact that the ODCE has done a complete whitewash. It has covered up its own mistakes. What the ODCE has had to say in that whitewashed report bears no resemblance to what the judge had to say on that day back in May 2017. There is no comparison. I ask the Taoiseach to read it. Is he prepared to read it? I will give it to him, since he seems to have difficulty getting access to these reports.

I remember the Taoiseach saying he did think we needed an examination as to how the case went wrong and why those mistakes were made by the ODCE. That is a long time ago for a fellow who is interested in tackling white-collar crime.

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