Jimmy Harte (Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is a legacy of a previous Administration which had gardaí scared witless in 2009. The blue flu took off then. I do not accuse the Senator of hypocrisy but it is hard to listen to him expressing concern for gardaí. When his party colleagues were in government, they had the opportunity to negotiate with the Garda, and the blue flu protest was the first time in the history of the State that Garda authorities, or anyone associated with the defence or justice systems-----