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Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Everybody understands the way some gardaí were perceived over the years. This is why Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring is changing the structure of GSOC to ensure people have trust and confidence in the organisation and that if they want to make complaints those complaints will be examined confidentially and be subjected to a full and thorough analysis of their value or otherwise. This...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I thank Deputy Wallace. What he is doing is making his comments and he is also concluding the outcome of a tribunal of inquiry. What is the question being asked here? Was there a deliberate smearing campaign by senior gardaí against Sergeant McCabe or was there not? We can talk all we like about it in here, but it will not answer that fundamental question. Judge O'Neill was unable...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Deputy Murphy is supporting, in principle, the setting up of a tribunal of inquiry and then prejudging its outcome before it starts. That is the Deputy's position. I have pointed out already that the Government has made serious adjustments to bring about greater trust, confidence and belief in the Garda, both in terms of the restructured Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC,...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: It is a funny thing that when one comes to the House and to the people in this position and actually tells the truth, one gets pilloried also. There are many people who were here before me for many years who made mistakes. I stand here to say that I had spoken to the Minister about the information on her meeting with the McCabe family. She notified my office, which told me of that...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: On Sinn Féin's instructions, the Northern Ireland Executive was collapsed to cause chaos. There is no leadership there now. Does Deputy Adams want to do the same thing down here? Sinn Féin has tabled a motion of no confidence in the Government simply because it wants to cause chaos down here as well. Allegations, rumour and hearsay do not count in our dictionary here but truth...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: You are an absolute hypocrite-----

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----after what you did and what you said to former Senator Máiría Cahill.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: And what you did and did not do in respect of safe houses, including on this side of the Border, where sexual abuse was conducted on young men by members of your organisation.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: You are an absolute hypocrite.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Let me tell you something, Deputy Adams. If you want to play politics with an issue that is so sensitive and so personal that it goes to the very heart of the public soul of Ireland then do so, but I do not agree with you because four days after this Minister got two protected disclosures about these very serious issues, she sent that to an eminent judge to examine them. He carried out his...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----which is to determine the truth as to whether there was a deliberate smear campaign against Sergeant McCabe and his family by senior members of the Garda.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: Here is the issue. Deputy Adams has never gone through this because he ran away each time it was raised.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: When one sets out to have a tribunal of inquiry under the 1921 Act, one cannot show any bias to anybody in the setting up of the terms of reference. One cannot determine the outcome of the inquiry before it ever begins. I understand the difficulties, stress and pressure this has caused for the McCabe family. There is nothing worse in this country than being called a sexual abuser, but...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----and there are two people here who vehemently deny that they were guilty of any smear campaign against Sergeant McCabe. That is why the Cabinet in its wisdom today has decided to have a tribunal of inquiry, under the 1921 Act-----

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: -----which will be fair to everybody and which will be drawn up with terms of reference that will include all of these relevant issues to get at that central question of whether there was or not a smear campaign against Sergeant McCabe.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: It is utterly hypocritical of Deputy Adams to come into this House after what he did and said about Senator Cahill and young men on this side of the Border who were abused in safe houses by members of his organisation.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: This Government will set up the facility, together with Members of the House, so that central question can be answered.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: I regret that. That is the same information. I did not actually-----

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: She did not tell me herself that she was meeting Sergeant McCabe.

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2017)

Enda Kenny: She did tell me before the Cabinet meeting last Tuesday that she had met with him and they had discussed allegations that were false in respect of those given to Tusla.