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- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The answer to that question is "Yes." The reason is I thought it appropriate, given the nature of the information made available to me, that the Commissioner should be made aware of its gravity amd how I felt about it and the implications. For the Deputy's information and that of the country, I attended an occasion in Dublin on Sunday. In the morning I called the Attorney General who said...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yes. She indicated that there was another matter of which I should be made aware, but she was not prepared to talk to me about the matter on the telephone.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Well Deputy Mattie McGrath may laugh.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Had Deputy Mattie McGrath been apprised of the situation, he might have a very different view. In conversation with the Attorney General about the specific case referred to, I also received the information from her that the potential scale was far beyond the particular case. I want to make it clear that in the assessment of the contents of a small number of tapes that had been transcribed...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: The Attorney General's fundamental constitutional position is to give legal advice to the Government. She is bound to have all of the facts at her disposal before she makes a judgment.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: I thought it right, in the interests of having a police force - An Garda Síochána - that stood up to scrutiny in terms of its competence and professionalism and in which people throughout the community could have faith, trust and belief, that I should bring the matter to the attention of the Cabinet. I know that the media focus was on crunch meetings to deal with the comments made...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Yesterday Deputy Mattie McGrath made the point that the GSOC report had referred to the fact that all of this had arisen from the Waterford case. The GSOC report referred to the particular case in Waterford police station. It did not refer to the much wider trawl that has now brought to light more than 2,500 tapes and the rest from 2008 to 2013 that are of a digital nature. That is why it...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: This is the first time Deputy Martin has accused me of being a liar in here and of using some perception of authority to remove people from office. I deplore what he is suggesting absolutely. The position is that the Dáil was going to meet this week to deal with the question of the remarks by the former Garda Commissioner at the Committee of Public Accounts and the remarks made by the...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and say that this should be left alone, that all would be well on the day? Was it not the right thing to do to say this is a matter of exceptional gravity-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----both in relation to the case in question where there are serious implications arising from the tapes, small in number, that have been assessed, and I do not know what is on any of the other vast majority of these tapes or what is contained on the digital recordings? My concern was raised by the fact that in the Waterford case specifically that the justice ruled that this was...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----in the knowledge that up ahead lies the most fundamental issue in our society which is trust, belief and faith in the justice system? My job as Head of Government is to see it to that we do the right thing, and I make mistakes myself. I want to see a situation where whistleblowers under the legislation are protected and respected for what they do-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----that the ordinary citizens have the opportunity to have faith and belief in the system-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----and that we build a police force now to be around an independent authority that everybody can say this is the way it should be. Why is it Deputy Martin that we now have five or six different things going on in the Department of Justice and Equality-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----headed by the Minister for Justice and Equality because they have dragged on, Deputy Calleary, for years?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: My job and the Government's job is to sort these things out, Deputy Martin.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: Far from sweeping them under the carpet-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----I believe it is right to address them-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----I believe it is right to make decisions that will change them. I believe it is right to do the best thing in the interests of our people and the country and that is why I responded in the way that I did. I do not take any solace from what Deputy Martin said, that he accused him in here of being a liar or going around sacking Garda Commissioners. I thought it important that from my...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----given the nature of what lies up ahead that I should have the Garda Commissioner apprised of my view of the gravity of this because when the Deputy and all his people-----
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Enda Kenny: -----wanted me to confront the Garda Commissioner, it would have been tantamount to expressing no confidence in the Garda Commissioner.