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- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I made it very clear at the outset that it has been a bad couple of months for the administration of justice and I am entitled to raise that topic.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am raising the issue. It is about the administration of justice.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is about the administration of justice or the maladministration of justice. The situation is very serious.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach that the confidential recipient-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----said to the whistleblower: "If the stuff was to get out into the public, the print media, it must come with what happens in the courtroom." He also said: "I'll tell you something Maurice, and this is just personal advice to you, if Shatter thinks you're screwing him, you're finished." It goes on: "Forget about it. He is dealing with a lot of stuff, the Minister". This is what the...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: He said: "If Shatter thinks it's you, or if he thinks it is told by the Commissioner or the gardaí, here's this guy again trying another route to put you under pressure, he'll go after you."
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The whistleblower said: "You mean Alan Shatter?" The reply was, "Yes, I mean he will", and it goes on. Why is he saying that? He is essentially saying to the whistleblower that the Minister for Justice and Equality will come after the whistleblower if the whistleblower gives whatever material he has to the media or puts it into the public domain.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Justice and Equality appointed that confidential recipient. Does the Taoiseach think that is appropriate in the context of a conversation between a whistleblower and the confidential Garda recipient? There has been no denial since this was aired on the record of this House last week. I have seen and read the transcript myself. It is extremely disturbing and extremely sinister.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It saps any confidence one could now have in terms of how justice is being administered. Are we serious? What kind of a democracy are we talking about-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----when someone can say a Minister will go after a whistleblower?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is one topic.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I find the Taoiseach's response extraordinary. I asked a very straightforward question in regard to that matter, namely, whether he would establish an independent panel of inquiry. He refused to answer it, and he went on a long rigmarole. I also asked him, as I made very clear at the outset of my question, about confidence in the administration of justice-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is the same issue.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Sorry. It is the relationship between the ombudsman's office and the Garda. The Minister himself has made the relationship between the Garda ombudsman's office and the Garda confidential recipient.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister himself has made that connection in the House. It is outrageous that an attempt should be made to suppress a legitimate issue I have raised-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: ------that goes to the very core of the administration of justice in this country.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not have the bottle to answer the question I put to him.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is not dramatics. I do not normally do this, a Cheann Comhairle, but this matter-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am here a long time, and I have never seen a leader of the Opposition interrupted so much at any time since Leaders' Questions came in.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I have never seen that type of intervention, a Cheann Comhairle.