translate English to French: Former Commissioner MacSharry was the victim of this kind of questionable practice and the Committee should have the common decency to apologise for putting allegations against him into the public domain one month before he even had the opportunity to offer evidence to refute these allegations.
L'ex-commissaire MacSharry a été victime de ce genre de pratique douteuse et la commission aurait dû au moins avoir la décence de s'excuser pour les critiques formulées à son encontre.