Whistleblower in force is ‘disgusting’

The Garda Commissioner has attacked the actions of a whistleblower in the force as “disgusting, inappropriate, and patently wrong”.

Martin Callinan told the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee it was not the correct forum to raise allegations of widespread abuse of the penalty points system. He said its examination of the allegations, contained in a “box of evidence” given to the committee chairman, John McGuinness in November, is having an “adverse effect on the maintenance of discipline and good order” in the force.

“I cannot have a situation where members are coming in, making very serious allegations of a criminal nature, and using platforms such as this committee to air their grievances,” he said. “It is grossly unfair.”