Dr. John Lannon:

Ireland has claimed in its reporting that all of the complaints and information that were brought to the attention of the authorities have been fully investigated. Ireland has been selective here because as far as I recall, the report to the ICCPR listed either 11 or seven incidents but we have listed 41 in our report. What we are saying is that we want to hear about what happened to all 41 incidents. In fact, we want to know what happened to all of the hundreds of complaints and requests for inspections that we made. While we would note that the Irish State and the Department engaged with TDIP committee and is being given credit for the fact that it was one of the few states which did so, we would also note that the Human Rights Committee of the UN has said in its third periodic review that the Irish authorities have been deficient. They are still deficient because they have not addressed the specifics of that committee's recommendations.