The Justice Minister says criticism of a ‘flawed Garda culture’ is an untrue, ‘shapeless’ and ‘disempowering’ criticism.
Frances Fitzgerald says she has not found the force ‘demonstrating a corner cutting culture’ – in spite of the assumptions in the public arena.
She says that she accepts that arrogance can happen – but says that elevating it into a ‘culture’ is disempowering.
Speaking at the MacGill Summer School in Glenties Minister Fitzgerald says if the Garda force is to be reformed and brought forward – changes must be recognised….
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