IT’S May 23, 2001 and Alan Shatter is in Opposition – and he’s making very serious allegations about Garda corruption in Donegal…involving allegations of bugging.
The Justice Minister was John O’Donoghue (Fianna Fail) – and he was having none of it.
“Will the Minister confirm that there is an allegation that gardai in Donegal were bugging conversations between solicitors and clients?#8221; asked Alan Shatter.
The Minister refused to budge; refusing to answer any questions despite being badgered by the Fine Gael TD.
In fact Minister O’Donoghue accused Deputy Shatter of making “ill-tempered, outrageous and unfounded” allegations.
But Deputy Shatter insisted: “This is a scandal of enormous proportions about which the Minister had done nothing since taking office.”
The record of the Dail exchange is below…..
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