Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If the Senator will let me finish, it is also about other whistleblowers and how we can ensure that we have better model of policing whereby, as I said yesterday, there will be accountability. The important point, in my personal opinion and in my view as Leader of the House, is that Sergeant McCabe and his family should receive and attain justice and truth. That is why a public inquiry is being established. That is why the terms of references will come to us this week or sometime next week. I cannot answer that question this morning because we have not yet received an answer. It is very important that we underline the point that the Taoiseach made yesterday - it is something we all stand for or for which we should stand - that the presumption of innocence stands for every citizen. That is important. It is equally important that the tribunal gets to the truth and that justice is seen to be delivered. I will not stand for the rank hypocrisy of members of the Sinn Féin Party making particular comments in this House and in the Dáil today when, for decades, they have been nothing other than obstructionist in the context of members of An Garda Síochána. I welcome their newfound interest in law and order. I hope they will stand up for it all the time from now on and that they will join me in working to find out the truth regarding the disappeared, the killing-----