An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2023-07-04
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Matt Carthy (SF), Cavan-Monaghan

In 2018, this House supported a motion calling for the establishment of a public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Shane O'Farrell and the actions of State agencies before and after his death. Rather than delivering that public inquiry, the Taoiseach's Government at the time initiated a scoping exercise that nobody had sought in 2019 for which a report still has not been published. It appears from extracts which were provided to RTÉ's "Prime Time" that the only outworking of that exercise has been to delay further the truth in this case from emerging and to exacerbate the pain and hurt to the O'Farrell family. Will the Government now enact the decisions of both Houses of the Oireachtas and establish a full public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Shane O'Farrell?

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Sitting date: 2023-07-04