Donegal Deputy Padraig MacLochlainn has reiterated his call for Minister Shatter to “take the right decision and like your friend Martin Callinan resign.”
The Sinn Fein TD was speaking in this morning’s Dáil debate on the establishment of a Commission of Investigation into Garda illegal recordings.
The party’s Justice spokesperson said the succession of bad decisions taken by Minister Shatter, supported by the government, and intended to obstruct proper scrutiny of policing, has done untold damage to public confidence in the administration of justice and to An Garda Siochána.
“The latest twist in the succession of scandals and crisis that have emerged on your watch occurred yesterday.
“We were told that the government had only become aware that a system was in place in a large number of Garda stations whereby incoming and outgoing telephone calls were being illegally recorded.
“The government said that it was ‘extremely concerned about this information.’
“Consequently it decided to do what thus far you have refused to do through all of the other crises, and that is to set up a Commission of Investigation.
“Within hours all of this had begun to unravel.
“We discovered that a Garda Ombudsman report published last June clearly identifies the Garda practice of recording outgoing and incoming calls.
“This was not new news,” slammed Deputy MacLochlainn.
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