The Garda Commissioner (Mr Callanan) is upset that some members of the Garda Sergeants walked out of the annual conference while listening to Minister Shatter lecturing them on how much more pay cuts they should take.
Is this guy (Callanan) for real? Afterall, it was the Sergeants conference. And Minister-Austerity-for-Brains used it to tell the members off. Wouldn't you love to be in the audience listening to a Minister lecturing you on the need for austerity on more austerity?
Minister Shatter was invited to the conference; he just didn't' show up. It's the height of disrespect to walk out on a Minister, who is, after all, an elected represented of the Irish people and a member of the Government, when your own organization has invited him to address the conference. Disrespectful behaviour such as walking out on a Minister in these circumstances probably transgresses the Garda Síochána Declaration of Professional Values and Standards; if so the Commission should initiate disciplinary proceedings against the gardaí concerned.
Callanan would want to wind his neck in and toughen up a bit. When you're in the top job and getting paid the big bucks, you need to be able to take the rough with the smooth. Proposing disciplinary action on this is a receipe for disaster - arrogant, short sighted, inflammatory and pig headed. I'm sure both Callanan and Shatter have been subjected to more "disrespectful" behaviour than that over the years. And as for Shatter trying to bring his wife into it, saying he was glad she wasn't with him and subjected to it - bizzare! Both of them seem completely out of touch.
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