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Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: ...gravity or other exceptional circumstances, be the subject of a special report to the Minister." The Taoiseach is on the record as saying that section 80(5) of the Garda Síochána Act "requires" that GSOC would report unusual matters or matters of exceptional importance to the Minister for Justice and Equality and that this was the fundamental issue which GSOC needed to explain...

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: The GSOC has said it regrets that it did not report the matter to the Minister.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said that the Act "requires" that GSOC report the matter to the Minister.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Willie O'Dea: The Taoiseach said the GSOC broke the law.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach will need to do it at some stage. I do not know what his game is but it is not helpful to GSOC to insinuate and repeatedly state it acted outside the law.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Willie O'Dea: Clearly it was wrong. Can he just say it was wrong? In fairness to GSOC, will he admit that his interpretation was wrong?

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach has been given two opportunities to correct the record of the Dáil. I now invite him for a third time to do so. The clear implication of what he has said and restated in respect of GSOC is that it was not in compliance with the law. That is not true.

Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Enda Kenny: ...We will have an opportunity to debate the matter fully. For the third time, I accept that the wording of the legislation in respect of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission does not require GSOC to report to the Minister but the provision in the law means the commission may report to the Minister. I have said to the Deputy's party leader, if she had listened, that if my...