Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Leader will respond to Senator MacSharry's amendment but it seems like an act of desperation and a desperate diversionary tactic by Fianna Fáil to put the same issue to a vote for the third day running. It seeks to divert attention away from its own serious responsibility for the matters that have come to light in recent weeks regarding tape recordings both in Garda stations and, as we know since yesterday, prisons. The Garda station recoding system was upgraded under the watch of the Fianna Fáil Minister, Dermot Ahern, in 2008 and there are serious questions to answer about that regime in the Department of Justice.