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Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: Okay. Let us forget about the court for a minute and let us deal with politicians because this actually started with politicians. It started-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: Excuse me. Can I-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: It might pain you all, or at least lots of you-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: -----that a jury actually watched the evidence and found us not guilty. I am sorry, but that is the way it works.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: This started with politicians.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: I have been interrupted non-stop.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: Let me pose the question. I will not go back to the court case, I guarantee the Ceann Comhairle.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: This started with politicians. It started with a Labour Minister a few hours after the protest saying that it was false imprisonment.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: It was followed by the former Taoiseach saying that it was kidnapping. It was followed by the now Taoiseach saying that it was thuggery. It was followed by the Taoiseach's lost colleague, Mr. Noel Coonan, describing it as the same as ISIS. That was echoed by large sections of the media. Now, politicians - not courts - have to deal with the consequences.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: If the Taoiseach believes that there is a serious chance, as there is, that the gardaí gave false evidence-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: -----on the stand, will he accept that we have to have an independent-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: -----public inquiry?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am not a victim. I will tell the Taoiseach who is a victim. There was a 15 year old who was convicted on the same evidence-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: -----that was contradicted before a jury and disbelieved by a jury. He was convicted in a children's court of false imprisonment. There is a victim.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach support his appeal to overturn his conviction?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: The others, my co-defendants, people who lost jobs as a consequence and those who still have this hanging over them-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: -----they are victims. The Taoiseach avoided the question quite deliberately because there is a logical flaw in his position. His position is to say that it would be a serious problem - I agree as it would be a matter of severe importance and public interest - if, in an abstract sense, gardaí would give false statements under oath. I agree that this is an important issue, but there is...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: The logical problem, as the Taoiseach knows, is that, first, we do not know how high this conspiracy went inside the Garda and, second, we do know that Nóirín O'Sullivan and the Garda hierarchy have been implicated in scandal after scandal after scandal.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: Whistleblowers. Templemore. Penalty points. We know that, so it is completely illogical-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: -----to ask them to investigate whether their members co-ordinated perjury to try to, first, get prosecutions to proceed in the first place and, second, stitch people up for false imprisonment.