No real interest in punishing wrongdoers

SOMETIMES, the circus gets out of hand. Last Sunday, a Government minister decried the slow rate of progress in criminal investigations into the banking collapse and the results from tribunal reports.

Pat Rabbitte told the Sunday Independent he finds the “interminable delay” in Garda investigations as “unconscionable”.

Later the same day another minister defended the slow progress. Alan Shatter, who oversees Justice, explained that due process was required.