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Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...sad reflection on our society and on the House that we allowed it to happen. I hope sincerely that it does not happen again. If it does, no one will want to take up public office, including the office of Garda Commissioner. I remember one day going deliberately to a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts. This was an issue in respect of which the committee had no function...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...I am not a person who talks about any individual and would never like to do so. I definitely would not name people inside the House. However, we all know what happened. It was a bad time for An Garda Síochána. The one thing every one of us recognises is that 99% of the members of An Garda Síochána, whether they are senior officers or further down the ranks, are 100%...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Róisín Shortall: ...Flanagan, earlier. His contribution fell very far short of what was required in response to the very deep problems and deep dysfunction that Mr. Justice Charleton had found, particularly in the Garda and Tusla. On the severe findings made in the report against individuals, clearly, the stand-out person is the ex-Garda Commissioner Mr. Martin Callinan. The report has found that he...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Michael Harty: I am glad to be able to contribute to the debate on the disclosures tribunal. The Charleton inquiry referred to many players. In respect of Martin Callinan, the former Garda Commissioner, it found that he had engaged in a campaign of calumny against Sergeant Maurice McCabe. Mr. Justice Charleton did not accept the former Commissioner's evidence that he had not engaged in a smear campaign...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...might remember that. He was around this House and I was an active member of Fianna Fáil at the time. The findings truly are grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented. The most senior garda in the State, someone with access to the most sensitive information possible, was found to have conducted a campaign of terror against an innocent member of the rank and file, Sergeant...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Mick Wallace: .... Chris Noonan, my parliamentary assistant, attended most days. At times, it was a depressing experience. It was hard to listen to public servants, in some cases retired Secretaries General, and Garda Commissioners, take the stand and be so economical with the truth. I have no intention of being critical of Mr. Justice Charleton’s report. It is excellent. While he was...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Clare Daly: ...He was perfectly entitled to do so given some of the nonsense he had to sit through and listen to. The Charleton report is a searing indictment of several State institutions, in particular, An Garda Síochána and Tusla, and the media. Mr. Justice Charleton castigated a number of journalists for frustrating the work of the tribunal and the public will. He castigated the...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Seán Sherlock: ...our own trumpets but I do not think there will be a rush of journalistic commentators or others queueing up to make the point clear. In his report, Mr. Justice Charleton rejects the sworn evidence of two Garda Commissioners and other senior Garda officers. The evidence of the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality is rejected as "improbable". The evidence of Tusla...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ..., that he wishes that was not the case, that none of this had transpired. Unfortunately, the actions of his superiors meant that he was drawn into one of the largest controversies involving An Garda Síochána in its history. He is a man who took on the culture of impunity and the powers that propped it up and won. We cannot overstate the impact the Sergeant Maurice McCabe has...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: .... It is worth going back and recalling the political issues that led this House to determine that we needed a public inquiry. The first was that in September 2016, a superintendent at the Garda press office made a protected disclosure in which he made very serious allegations against the then Garda Commissioner, Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan. There was also a protected disclosure...

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...President of the Court of Appeal, who will take over the work of the tribunal in relation to the matters covered by the remaining paragraph [p] of its terms of reference. That paragraph covers any garda who made protected disclosures and who alleged that he or she was subsequently targeted or discredited as a result. I will briefly refer to the background to the matters before the...