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It was a case of the pot calling the kettle black in the Dáil this week as the Moriarty Report was finally published and gave a damming account of how Esat Digifone was awarded the country’s second mobile phone licence with the help of former Fine Gael TD Michael Lowry.

Fine Gael’s attempt to “play politics” with the independent Garda and ODCE investigation into Anglo Irish Bank shows it is only interested in “media management” and putting “gestures before justice”.

A garda-issue firearm and a large quantity of ammunition, which was thought to have gone missing from Tipperary Garda Station, has been found in the garda station.

Fine Gael Leader, Enda Kenny, TD, has questioned the Minister for Justice, Dermot Ahern, TD, regarding the number of applications being processed and the length of time being taken for such processing by the Garda Central Vetting Unit.

There are a number of “unscrupulous” taxi drivers plying their trade in Galway City without proper insurance cover in place, according to Independent Galway West TD Noel Grealish who is calling for this “scam” to be urgently stamped out.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny TD has received the reply to a parliamentary question from the Justice Minister, Dermot Ahern, TD, where he gives no firm commitment to ensuring the replacement of Garda personnel in Kilmaine, Co Mayo. In the Minister’s response, he makes no solid commitment to the people of Kilmaine and passes the responsibility to the Garda Commissioner and his senior management to decide upon staffing allocations.

A local garda review into how best to implement the realignment of the local garda boundaries which will see Kilkenny separated from the Waterford division, to form a new Garda division with Carlow, has been submitted to the Garda Commissioner for consideration.

Complaints against Gardai in the Longford/Westmeath Garda Division are the fifth lowest in the country at nine, a reduction of eight on the 2006 figures, according to the Garda Siochana Complaints Board's 2007 Report.

The refurbishment of the house attached to the Hollymount Garda Station is placed at number 42 on a prioritised list on the Garda Accommodation Programme, according to Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony.

Fine Gael MEP Jim Higgins has welcomed the decision by the Garda Commissioner to replace the two retired members of the force who carried out immigration duties at Ireland West Airport Knock. In his letter to Mr Higgins, the chief superintendent personal assistant to the Garda Commissioner states “in light of the retirement of two members of the Immigration Unit at Ireland West Airport on April 20 and May 8 2009, the Divisional Officer, in consultation with Detective Chief Superintendent Garda National Immigration Bureau and senior management at Ireland West Airport, conducted an extensive examination of resource deployment. The outcome of this process has led the Divisional Officer to advertise two new positions at the Immigration Unit with interviews for same scheduled for mid-November 2009.