Wallace has slipped away almost unnoticed

The unsatisfactory report on the Mick Wallace affair is proof of the inability of the Oireachtas to get to grips with wrong-doers in its midst, writes political editor Paul O’Brien

AMID the controversy and justified questioning over James Reilly’s business interests, Mick Wallace has slipped away almost unnoticed.

But he shouldn’t have been allowed to, given the manner in which he frustrated a Dáil committee examining the fallout from his fraudulent declaration of Vat.