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Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: -----on the stand, will he accept that we have to have an independent-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: -----public inquiry?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: I am not a victim. I will tell the Taoiseach who is a victim. There was a 15 year old who was convicted on the same evidence-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: -----that was contradicted before a jury and disbelieved by a jury. He was convicted in a children's court of false imprisonment. There is a victim.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: Will the Taoiseach support his appeal to overturn his conviction?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: The others, my co-defendants, people who lost jobs as a consequence and those who still have this hanging over them-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: -----they are victims. The Taoiseach avoided the question quite deliberately because there is a logical flaw in his position. His position is to say that it would be a serious problem - I agree as it would be a matter of severe importance and public interest - if, in an abstract sense, gardaí would give false statements under oath. I agree that this is an important issue, but there is...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: The logical problem, as the Taoiseach knows, is that, first, we do not know how high this conspiracy went inside the Garda and, second, we do know that Nóirín O'Sullivan and the Garda hierarchy have been implicated in scandal after scandal after scandal.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: Whistleblowers. Templemore. Penalty points. We know that, so it is completely illogical-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: -----to ask them to investigate whether their members co-ordinated perjury to try to, first, get prosecutions to proceed in the first place and, second, stitch people up for false imprisonment.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: I do not want the Taoiseach's commentary on the case. I want him to deal with the actual question, namely-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: -----that we need an independent public inquiry to get to the bottom of this and the charges against remaining protestors should be dropped.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: You will regret this, Taoiseach. You are going to regret this when this comes out.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: Politically, the Taoiseach is going to regret this. Yes, you are.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach clearly has not read the transcripts.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: "Will we keep her here for the night?" Not one, not two, but three gardaí up to the rank of superintendent swore under oath that they heard me say those words at the protest in Jobstown. Words designed-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: Yes, a Cheann Comhairle?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: Sure, this-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: The trial is finished. It is in order.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Murphy: Words designed to portray a menacing crowd, perhaps a crowd-----