Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

I do not know how much further we can take this matter. I am not contesting at all that this family have certain rights and the Office of the Ombudsman found in their favour. I want to make that completely clear.

If my memory is correct and I think it is, after the then Minister made the decision he or she did on the recommendation of the Office of the Ombudsman, the next step was that the Ombudsman referred it to the Oireachtas and I think that is what happened. It was a reference from the Ombudsman to the Oireachtas, then the discussion, which Dr. Cecil Beamish has spoken of happened in the committee.