I would expect public sector workers to have higher standards than auditors though
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Now thereâs a race to the bottom.
And it just happened to be on a file relating to Maurice McCabe, at a time when he was in the middle of a huge garda corruption scandal. Unless these errors are widespread (plausible to be fair) it would make McCabe extremely âunluckyâ to have been the one on the receiving end. The simplest explanation etc.
There is a possibility that she made a genuine mistake and the Guards just took the opportunity to run with it to discredit McCabe.
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Youâd hope this is the case. Mick Clifford isnât convinced.
Should be fairly easy to connect her to it if it was deliberate. Itâs a small country and for a psychologist to risk their career and reputation would have to be a fairly strong reason to aid and abet the guards in this manner e.g. some family relation to the situation
Michael McDowell, counsel for McCabe, will be cross examining her todayâŚ
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Wouldnât fancy that. Iâd imagine he will skewer her.
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Defence barrister will be on his feet âyou cannot badger a woman in this condition like thatâ
Iâd be turning on the waterworks early
There will be no defence barrister. Itâs a tribunal.
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In simple probability terms. Letâs say the child protection service is racked with errors which it would seem is the case and the chance of them making a fuck up on a file is 1/5 which youâd hope is way off.
Now theyâve made conservatively three fucks up here which are independent of each other, not properly investigating it, saying they didnât have a file on it when they obviously did, and then making a mistake on the file when the allegation resurfaced. Your already at a 125/1 shot of 3 errors being made on the same case at different stages, by different people (presumably) with regard to the same man.
Add in the odds of an allegation resurfacing in the middle of said person making a complaint against the gardaiâŚ
Like he won a bad luck lotto
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I believe her that it was a genuine mistake. You can just see the glee in the Garda station when the file was received though and them picking up the phone to HQ and saying you will never believe what has just come across my desk. I know the Gardai are accused of being slow to investigate complaints but you have to say in this case they moved with lightening speed.
Except they didnât investigate it at all
Add in the fact the father of Ms D, was in fact a Garda about whom Maurice McCabe had made a complaint
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Iâm not convinced the Guards have the intellect to design a conspiracy which would go that far. As @gilgamboa said youâd hope a counsellor would not become involved , unless she could be âpersuadedâ to get involved. Absolutely nuts if true though.
Youâve a couple of different things here:
Original complaint;
Wouldnât have had anything to do with the higher ups, just a local grudge.
It would seem to be a bullshit complaint but the Guards are reasonably in the clear.
Second complaint;
Bit of a whiff off this timing wise. That aside, there is the fact that the Tusla one was told there was no report when there was and she made an error on it. Plausible enough on a single file but a coincidence given the file that was in it. But then she submits this erroneous report to the Gardai, with some very serious accusations on it, and they take no action on it, nothing. Tusla donât follow up on it either, neither investigating the complaints. Tusla then opens separate files on McCabeâs family without his knowledge. They all include the new claims, presumably tagging back to the first report. Claims never investigated in any way shape or form. Why would they do that? Thatâs not an error. Would they have contacted Brophy about this? If not why not? She would have realised the mistake at this point if they had.
Anyway GardaĂ and Tusla have serious allegations on file that they did nothing about, youâd imagine the Guards in particular would have only been delighted to take the opportunity to investigate the prick that had been making life so difficult for them. The allegations were known all the way to the top as allegedly Callinan etc. were telling people about them. So why wouldnât they investigate them? Is it possible itâs because they knew they were false in the first place?
Then you have the smearing bit which has no defence. Filthy cunts tried to ruin the man. Even if you could exonerate Tusla for just being completely incompetent thereâs still a case for the Guards to answer here.
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This exactly.
I cannot understand anyone taking this (now changed/organised) story at face value.
It is equally likely that an excusegoat was required, and what better than a relatively attractive and pregnant lady.
She should be fired if it was a genuine error, for gross negligence, and sued.
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Itâs a pity no one is cross examining him over his input on fucking up the GardaĂ even more as minister for justice at a time when there were loads of resources available to improve the organisation.
I wouldnât disagree but Iâd say trying to fire someone from the HSE is fanciful enough but trying to fire someone for a genuine error nigh on impossible
A genuine error?
It impugned a man in the most awful way.
It was grossly negligent to do so. Her remit is obviously in this area, yet she was so slovenly at this that she managed to accuse an innocent man of the digital rape of a vulnerable person.
What exactly is an offence worthy of firing?
The rats have been at this.
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It was you said they should fire her for a genuine error not fucking me!