Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise with the Taoiseach the very disturbing revelations that an investigator with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, apparently attended a party with Gerard Hutch on the evening of the day that the latter was acquitted by the Special Criminal Court following the prosecution arising from the Regency Hotel murder, which casts such a long shadow on those communities so badly impacted by organised crime and by the Hutch-Kinahan feud in particular. This is a really disturbing revelation about GSOC. The Garda has mounted an investigation, and that is welcome. However, I echo the calls of my colleague, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, for the establishment of an investigation of the matter independent both of GSOC and the Garda. This investigation could be led by a senior counsel or a retired judge or it could be modelled on the Seán Guerin inquiry. It should be swift and focused. This is such a serious matter - it has the potential to undermine, to a great degree, public confidence in policing and our policing apparatus - that it warrants that level of investigation.

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