An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2023-04-25
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

In many ways that is the point. This is a Parliament, not a kangaroo court. While the Deputy is a Member of Parliament and I am too, he does not have the authority to decide who has committed a crime and who has not. Nor does he have the authority to investigate it. If an allegation is being made of a criminal nature, there is a proper process by which an investigation can be carried out and a prosecution carried out if warranted. It is not for the Deputy to do that. That is not his role. We are a democracy. We do have a separation of powers between the legislative function of this place and the courts.
The fact that you think you are the person who should make that determination is exactly the problem.

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