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Micheál Martin earlier accused the Taoiseach of being “shifty and underhand” while Gerry Adams said Kenny should resign.
Analysis: Government efforts to portray the report as clearing Enda Kenny may not work.
Analysis: The departure of the Garda Commissioner remains shrouded in controversy.
The post of secretary general in Frances Fitzgerald’s department is being readvertised.
Everyone’s talking about a miscarriage of justice, live-tweets from Gaza, and dating site experiments.
Justice minister Frances Fitzgerald and Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams have been speaking about yesterday’s damning report.
It’s Tuesday – and here’s all that you need to know as you start your day.
The report, initiated in the wake of the Guerin findings, found there was a “closed, secretive” culture in the Department.
It’s recommended Frances Fitzgerald’s Department could be split into two portfolios, one for ‘Justice’ and one for ‘Home Affairs’.
The Justice Minister has accepted a request from Brian Purcell to be reassigned in the wake of a damning report.
The Minister for Justice is expected to publish a report into the running of her department very shortly.
The Fianna Fáil leader said it was “very serious” that junior minister Alex White agreed that the Taoiseach forced the former Garda Commissioner to quit.
White was speaking at the Labour leadership hustings in Dublin this evening.
The junior health minister reportedly told Labour members the Taoiseach acted “without as much as a phone call” to Eamon Gilmore.
Members of the committee slammed his lack of cooperation as “farcical”.
Kenny said there was nothing “mysterious” about the matter.
The election over, TDs and senators were back at work yesterday. Today, the much-anticipated committee appearance of Brian Purcell will provide the main focus in Leinster House.
If he is called before the Commission of Investigation into the GardaGate scandal, he will “respond fully” on the issue.
Department of Justice Secretary General Brian Purcell is at the centre of several controversies, but the biggest questions concern the events leading up to the departure of Martin Callinan in March.
Brian Purcell will appear before the Oireachtas Justice Committee the week after next.
The Justice Minister will await the outcome of an independent review into her new department before deciding on Brian Purcell who today said he will answer questions about the findings of the Guerin report before TDs and Senators.
Meanwhile, Secretary General at the Department of Justice has been invited before an Oireacthas committee to discuss the findings.
However, the panel of TDs and senators is seeking to have an examination of the timeline of events included in the terms of reference of the Commission of Investigation.
The fact that calls were taped in garda stations since the 1980s wasn’t widely discussed by officials after the letter arrived “and certainly not in any red flag manner”.
Fianna Fáil will be piling the pressure on the Justice Minister tonight as it tables a motion of no confidence. Here are the questions they and others will want answered.
Martin Callinan ‘made his own decision’, Enda Kenny has said. Meanwhile, Fianna Fáil is tabling a motion of no confidence in Alan Shatter next week.
Enda Kenny has revealed fresh concerns about the recordings in and out of garda stations.