Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

With all due respect, Senator Bacik has been somewhat disingenuous about the sequence of events she has attempted to outline. The core of the issue is that the Government decided in setting up the Fennelly commission that it was, as Senator Bacik correctly points out, to focus on the alleged recordings at GSOC but it tagged on the forced retirement or dismissal of the former Garda Commissioner.

The committee attended by the Senator yesterday should have been allowed to pursue that matter.