Dáil Éireann - Volume 433 - 01 July, 1993 - Adjournment Debate. - Statement by Garda in Drink Driving Case.

Dáil Éireann - Volume 433 - 01 July, 1993 - Adjournment Debate. - Statement by Garda in Drink Driving Case.: "When this drink driving case came before the Dublin District Court for the second occasion it had to be adjourned because the investigating garda, who was the prosecuting garda, from Donnybrook Garda station, said: “Summonses keep disappearing in connection with these charges. Somebody has been interfering with this case internally.” I regard that as a very serious matter. It is important in [940] the enforcement of our laws, particularly in regard to the enforcement of our criminal law, that we have a fair and equitable system. The establishment of the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions under the 1974 Act was done not just to streamline the way we deal with prosecution but in order to have an independent office holder. Under section 6 of the Act, it is an offence for any person to communicate in any way or to seek to influence the Director in the taking of a prosecution or in the proceeding with or dropping of charges"???????