David Norris (Independent)

The Minister for Defence, Deputy O'Dea, said in a newspaper article in reference to Deputy Costello:

As if to add insult to injury, Costello referred to the Lusk shootings with the extraordinary phrase: "Where people die as a result of Garda action, there must be a proper procedure for an independent investigation into such incidents. Is this how Costello and the Labour Party perceive what happened" and so on.