Frank Feighan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Political parties should highlight these, but sometimes it becomes victim politics and political campaigns. Sometimes both sides have competing victimhood and it goes down a cul-de-sac. This is what political party sometimes do. In politics in the South, we can be accused of this, going back 60 or 70 years, on issues that were not as deep or should not have been as deep.

Sometimes when there are competing sides that are highlighting tragic issues, which is necessary to do, does the commission have a mechanism in place to check any possible imbalance or to say that people have got their publicity from an issue? Is the commission worried about that? Are we moving into an area from which there is no return? Victim politics or victimhood can be very difficult. Has the commission ever had to look at that? What are the witnesses' views on that? Is there a mechanism in place, or that could be put in place, to deal with it?