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- 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...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: There is something rotten in the state of Denmark in regard to this issue.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It has now gone beyond most of the institutions that have dealt with it.
- 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?
- 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...
- 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (19 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: 45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the request to release the documents withheld from Judge Barron in relation to the Dublin Monaghan bombings. [7486/14]
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday the Taoiseach stated in the House, in respect of the confidential recipient and Garda whistleblower, that "having read all of the statements made and having been in contact with the Minister for Justice and Equality who is very concerned about this matter [...] he has this morning relieved Mr. Connolly of his duties." There has been nothing else from the Taoiseach or the Minister...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Does the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, agree that we require a comprehensive statement from the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, on the reasons he decided to relieve Mr. Connolly of his duties? Second, does she agree it is now important that the Minister for Justice and Equality make a comprehensive statement in the House on the entire affair and...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, received it two years ago.