David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I join the sentiments of sympathy that have been expressed on the death of Nicky McFadden, and I pass on my condolences to her colleagues and her family. I am sure we will have an opportunity over the next number of days and weeks to pay tribute to Nicky, and I will do so when that occasion arises.

Notwithstanding the views of Members of this House or the Dáil on the Minister for Justice and Equality, it is fair to say the majority of citizens in this State think that the Minister should resign. They think so because he has presided over a number of debacles over the past year. It began when he divulged information given to him by the Garda Commissioner on Deputy Mick Wallace and put it into the public domain. When the penalty points situation occurred, there was an attempt by the Minister and the Garda Commissioner at the time to muddy the waters and to call into question the integrity of the two whistleblowers. That was quite serious at the time. We also had an alleged bugging of GSOC and now we hear about the recording of phone calls into and out of Garda stations. One of those Garda stations is in Waterford, where recordings were made of calls between members of An Garda Síochána about the case taken by Anthony Holness. That was referred to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission-----