Tribunals of Inquiry
Dail Éireann — 2024-01-23
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

I have listed out three times today now that we specifically included and facilitated any people who felt they could not make a complaint because they were deterred from doing so or were afraid there would be reprisals. All those cases are not excluded. I do not know how that has emerged. The Attorney General met with the Women of Honour group with me and went through all of this. The only issue at the end that I could think of, because I listed out all the issues, and the Deputy probably heard me there listing the cases, was around the random selection issue in a context where we had, say, thousands of cases. This matter goes back 40 years, so there is a safeguard in there to ensure we can finish the process within a reasonable timeframe.

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Sitting date: 2024-01-23