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SINN FÉIN TD Martin Kenny has criticised Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald for taking six months to acknowledge a protected disclosure he made about alleged serious garda malpractice.
In November 2016, Kenny made his protected disclosure to Frances Fitzgerald, outlining claims he had made earlier in the year. Speaking in the Dáil last May, he made serious allegations about wrongdoing in his constituency.
He claimed gardaí had, over the course of a nine-year period:
Kenny said he had been given this information by garda whistleblowers and alleged informants.
He claimed at the time that a garda informant told him that he was asked by named gardaí to carry out a burglary at his own home.
Kenny told TheJournal.ie that he only this week received an acknowledgement of his protected disclosure and said this was “absurd”.
Fitzgerald’s letter, dated 16 May, says the “delay in responding is regretted”.
She noted correspondence in November from the Sinn Féin TD under Protected Disclosures legislation. Though the minister said she does not believe his letter constituted a protected disclosure, she described the allegations as “clearly very serious”.
Fitzgerald has now requested a report from the Garda Commissioner in relation to the claims. Martin questioned how seriously his allegations were being taken considering the six-month delay in even acknowledging them.
“I don’t know what it says. You think they’ll be looking at them seriously. After the speech I made [in May], two senior gardaí came to meet me and I gave them everything, told them who they needed to speak to. I’ve never heard from them since,” he said.
“This was last year in May or early June. It was an exercise to absorb what I knew. I was very annoyed with them, but I was more annoyed at myself for believing them”.
Hope it’s nothing trivial
Reading all the wishes of ill-health of death by the bitter little people who read The Journal reminds me why I could never be a Leftist like them. Their hearts are dark with no room for charity or kindness.
@Brian Lenehan: you’re a tonic… Do you always come up with these one liner, ops two sentence, comical jestures so fast?
@Brian Lenehan: on a serious note, with all the ill health and pain he has forced on his own people and on the people of this earth, I think a twisted gut is the minimum this guy should be inflicted with. Let’s hope the cure is worse than the disease on this occasion. karma can be beautiful but can also have a weird sense of humour.
@Brian Lenehan: Those comments are humourous in intent. Considering his dangerous impact on the environment, ‘truth’, democracy, the rule of law and accountability, etc. it is difficult to empathise with him. You would have done better service to your argument if you hadn’t resorted to giving away your own agenda and limited perspective.
@David A. Murray: its about time the left started to express themselves directly in no uncertain terms just as the right do. this character shows f all respect for humanity. so, f all respect should be shown to him.
@Brian Lenehan: take up a new hobby this year- staying conversant with current affairs
@Brian Lenehan: this man has openly killed 1000s of people with his words and lack of action. He has openly threatened to imprison those he deems a threat to his rule. He’s a little strongman who rules with a fist. So anyone that disagrees with you is automatically a leftist? He has recently said those asking for his impeachment will be punished by his followers by executions. He has clamped down on the free press, freedom of speech, censorship, jailed those who disagree with him etc. And apparently he said something about a girl before he got elected saying that she was to ugly to get raped? He despises Democracy. he is a autocratic President playing the putin card. People like him don’t last long. So yeah I can understand peoples feelings.
@Brian Lenehan: you don’t have to be a specific side of the political spectrum to know that Bolsonaro and many others like him are devoid of any redeeming characteristics. People from the left and right used to think like this before the mid 2010′s when large swathes of each felt they had to blindly support the politicians they felt an affinity with as blindly as they would support their soccer team, regardless of their words, actions, or the consequences of both.
@Brian Lenehan: The absolute state of that comment
@alan scott: I am a fierce critic of Bolsonaro. He is a disgrace. But half of the things you mentioned are not true or complete exaggeration.
@CaicoNaFita: nothing about Bolsonaro is exaggerated.. He’s a scut and more.
@CaicoNaFita: il try and find the links and post them.
@Brian Lenehan: why are you guys always able to dish it out but not take it? Hahahaha
@Brian Lenehan:
Der Fürher loved dogs and was vegetarian. He was still however a b0//0x (1st Class with Oak Leaves). Whaddya gonna do…?
He’s been full of it and hot air for years…… I’m surprised its taken this long
@Aidan Leonard: its not so much hot air he is full of at the moment….
Fingers crossed.
A tool passing a stool
That will be the bile and hatred, i expect.
Wouldn’t be terrible if he caught covid whilst in hospital.
@Gerry Gleeson: if you are after a fresh bout of Covid, there is no better place to pick it up than a hospital
Classic case of head up ones own but..
Did somebody shove his policies up his hole?
I think his blocked.
@Ciarán O’Fearghail: Brain is blocked
@Ciarán O’Fearghail: you’re some rick with a large P.
He really is that full of absolute…..
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