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Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am not.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: If the Minister lets me explain-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: This document is a complaint about very serious matters and it refers to very serious issues. It was sent to the confidential recipient and it was sent to the Minister for Justice and Equality in January 2012. Can I be any clearer?

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I got these this morning. I got this actual document this morning.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: What I am saying is that the material-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: This is incredible.

Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: He is seeking Government time.

Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: It would be submitted to the justice committee.

Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is in the programme for Government.

Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am sure the Taoiseach will join me in saying that deaths following the decision of the Ukrainian Government to crush peaceful opposition protests brutally are an outrage that all democratic countries should condemn and oppose resolutely. Will the Taoiseach, and the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in particular, support immediately the move by a number of EU...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: When talking to people who know a lot about it in other institutions, the first thing they ask is whether I mind if we meet in my office as they are afraid their telephones could be bugged. That is out there in the ether and the Taoiseach needs to do something about it.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I will communicate with the Taoiseach following his invitation yesterday. Material that has come into my possession concerns a more serious matter. I sincerely hope the Taoiseach will not leave it with the Department of Justice and Equality. The Taoiseach should not tell me he is waiting for a report from that Department because he will wait and wait. The matter must be taken out of the...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: We have all this.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Will he correct the record of the House?

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Last week I read elements of the transcript of a conversation between the Garda confidential recipient, Mr. Oliver Connolly, and a Garda whistleblower, Mr. Maurice McCabe, such as how, if the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, felt the whistleblower was going to screw him, he would be finished. In addition, it was said that if complaints were exposed to the print media,...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: What has occurred is absolutely scandalous. It is not just about penalty points, it is also about other serious issues that would make one's hair stand on end. They are shocking revelations of incompetence which ultimately led to people being murdered as a result of a failure to act. It is very serious stuff which the Department of Justice and Equality has had for quite a long time but not...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I know the Garda Inspectorate produced a report on the O'Mahony investigation. Will the Taoiseach confirm that that report is now with the Minister for Justice and Equality? Will it be published unvarnished?

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I think the decision was the inevitable outcome of the conversation that had taken place between the confidential recipient and Mr. McCabe. I take no pleasure in saying this in respect of the individual concerned, but that is not the end of the matter by a long shot. The Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, must come into the House to...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: We are talking about the equivalent of the Neary case in the health sector. It was the whistleblower who sorted out that issue and revealed all. This is how Garda whistleblowers are being treated by the system, yet the Minister stands over it. He has stood over it the whole way through. That is the problem. When Mr. McCabe sent the Taoiseach a dossier, he wrote to his office saying he...

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: It was an extraordinary reply, yet, having sent that letter to the Taoiseach, the Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter, went into the House to say the Garda whistleblower had not co-operated with the inquiry. That was a blatant untruth. That is the critical point. In the interests of fair play, the Minister needs to correct the record, if he has any sense of decency towards the individual...