Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I support Senator Bacik's call regarding the Smithwick tribunal report, if I have not done so already. I think I did last week. The judge and his team put a tremendous amount of work into that, not just the report but everything they did over the last number of years. It is unfortunate that some people who eventually came to them in private refused to submit themselves to be tested and cross-examined in the public sessions. In that report the judge made a vital recommendation on the wonderful co-operation that exists between the Garda Síochána and the PSNI that there be a more structured, focused and defined approach rather than an ad hoc approach. Because of the alleged smuggler mentality, with which Senator Wilson and others would be much more familiar than I, that is alleged to exist on both sides of the Border-----