Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The background is that Ronan MacLochlainn was fatally shot by members of the Garda during an attempted armed robbery of a Securicor van in County Wicklow on 1 May 1998 and on 12 March 2010 his partner, Ms Gráinne Nic Gibb, took a case against Ireland under the European Convention on Human Rights alleging a failure on the part of the State to carry out an effective - that is the key word - official investigation into this fatal shooting, as required under Article 2 of the convention. Under this article, the State is under an obligation to have an effective and official investigation where a State agent takes action that leads to a fatality. If it were to happen now, there would be an investigation by GSOC.