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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: I thank our visitors for attending here today. Does Mr. Purcell appreciate that the position he has taken here today in respect of the answering of questions amounts to obstruction of the work of the Oireachtas and this committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: Mr. Purcell cited parallel inquiries. There are many examples in society where organs of the State carry out parallel inquiries. One could have the Revenue Commissioners and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement or one could have the Garda and the Revenue Commissioners carrying out parallel inquiries. The position Mr. Purcell is taking today is not sustainable or credible...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: Is Mr. Purcell aware of any such incidents?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: What we and the public find difficult to understand is why we cannot be told the truth because the truth in whatever fashion or manner it takes, unvarnished and all, is the truth. Nobody is asking Mr. Purcell to deviate from that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: My line of questioning is not implying that Mr. Purcell is telling anything but the truth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: I have a couple of questions. We are all waiting in line. In arriving at the position he is maintaining here regarding what he is prepared to answer and what he is not prepared to answer, did Mr. Purcell consult, take advice from or correspond with the Taoiseach, his own Secretary General, Martin Fraser, or any officials within the Department of the Taoiseach?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: I ask the same question in respect of the new Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: I have not done that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: At the start of the meeting the Chairman put a number of questions to Mr. Purcell. His position is that he is not going to discuss his visit to residence of the former Commissioner, Martin Callinan. Did he have occasion to visit Mr. Callinan's residence on other business?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: If the committee in its collective wisdom decided to invite the Taoiseach, the former Minister, Mr. Purcell and the Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach to appear before us together, would that be an issue for Mr. Purcell?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: I think it is something we will have to consider in time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: I have a number of questions and I am not delaying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: The committee will have to discuss the option of bringing before us the Taoiseach, the former Minister, the Secretary General at the Department of the Taoiseach and Mr. Purcell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: Let us have more information put into the public domain. The public deserves that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: In regard to the whistleblowers, what was Mr. Purcell's reaction to the McCabe-Connolly transcript and its contents? When did he become aware of it and what, if anything, did he do about it? I refer to the comments by Mr. Connolly regarding what the former Minister would seek to do to Sergeant McCabe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: What did he think and what action, if any, did he take when he became aware of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: What about the contents of the transcript?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: It shone a light into an area of dysfunction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: In Mr. Purcell's conversations with Mr. Connolly on the transcript, did he deny any of the contents or details of the transcript?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Niall Collins: He did not deny the contents of it and he was more concerned about the fact that the conversation was recorded than by the substance of what was said. That is effectively what Mr. Purcell is saying.