Tribunals of Inquiry
Dail Éireann — 2023-11-21
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Matt Carthy (SF), Cavan-Monaghan

What I have said is that at the first hurdle, we need to ensure it has full public confidence. Public confidence will not be easily built if the organisation that made the allegations and charges, and which outlined the deficiencies in policies and procedures that everybody now accepts existed, does not endorse the process and say it believes it has the capacity to make findings that will address the issues brought to the fore. It would be a shame as much as anything else. I will not make a political charge. However, I think it would be a real shame if we got to that point.
What I am asking the Tánaiste to do is to ensure that does not happen. We know the way to ensure that does not happen is to go through each of the issues, point by point, sitting around the table. The Tánaiste said he is going to meet the group on Thursday. What I have asked is whether he will commit to reach agreement with them and not bring forward recommendations to Government that do have that agreement.

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Sitting date: 2023-11-21