Minister for Transport Paschal Donohoe
Yes.
Very.
Mr Donohoe confirmed he had discussed with Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald last night Sgt Maurice McCabe’s latest allegations that several hundred penalty points are continuing to be terminated every month by members of the force.
“Both of us agree that they’re very, very serious and they must be investigated…It is hugely important that these areas be investigated properly and it be done in a clear manner,” he said.
Penalty point allegations ‘very, very serious’ – Donohoe (IrishTimes)
So.
How many can access the new system?
Interim Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan said the timeline in relation to these allegations was very important. She said only three people could cancel penalty points under the new system introduced in June.
Hmm.
That seems to narrow it down to three people.
It’s a two-piper.
Minister urges people not to jump to conclusions over new penalty points allegations (RTE, Monday)
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
This needs to be followed up on. These three people need to be identified Publicly and explain. Not another unpublished garda investigation. A proper Appearance before the Oireachtas.
Those three people shouldn’t be identified at all.
Its quite probably they are civil servant who were told by Gardaí that points should be canceled for legitimate reasons. Aside from ensuring there was a paper or electronic trail, they would probably have to implement those requests.
Why are people so anxious to hang someone, anyone, all the time?
Only three people? This is starting to look like the last segment of an Agatha Christie adaptation. Anyone on the Broadsheet staff feeling like Poirot?
Bodger has the requisite command of English.
Maybe you can help me then, what’s a “two-piper”?
Its from Sherlock Holmes. A problem so difficult it needed two pipes to solve.
Thanks :)
Yes, he was supposed to talk English better than the natives! Is that what you’re getting at? *sarcasm*
Pipes of what?
Well, Sherlock smoked a lot of things, including opium.
But I think the pipes he was referring in the context of the two pipe thing were tobacco.
This also makes sense from a practical view as more than one pipe of 19th century opium (think very strong heroin) would have caused a smoker to lose consciousness and maybe even die.
Unless Bodger is trying to say that it’s the kind of problem that is addictive, but can’t be solved.
Always these little layers, with Bodger posts.
Well I don’t. It was a fact that Arthur Conan Doyle’s hero whose stories you presumably read to your kids smoked opium, which was essentially heroin. Get over it.
I think we’ll need another Senior Counsel to investigate this. Whitewashes don’t come cheap.
Actually if you’d bothered reading the Sean Guerin report you’d have seen it was anything but a whitewash.
three people….is that just at this moment or is that including the number of people they removed from having access just before making the statement?
Good point!
Very very very serious . What does that Mcabe fella be up to at all? They need to keep him away from the puters.
OK… posting this in the right spot…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4OFSR_f1Uw
Head in to about 7:55…. but then, enjoy it all….
+ Seriously
And the answer is….. by my own reckoning….
No new system was put in place at all and the ‘only three’ can cancel stuff off the system is something written in a report or a recommendation in some other report but nothing was ever changed or implemented on the ground.
That’s my jump the gun / conspiracy anyway, sure, it’s par for the course.
Convenient this all comes out the week the shams are due back in clown college
I’ll thank you not to speak of Princeton in that way