Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I am always happy to come to this committee or provide a written update. I find it beneficial to come to this committee for the range of experience and expertise that it has. However, I am happy to provide written reports. I have, on this point, provided detailed reference and I am always happy to engage with the Chair on issues. I think the Deputy is right that the committee has a role in keeping pressure on the Government and I to implement all 22 actions and to support us in the pre-legislative processes.

On the issue of the institutional burials Bill, we have heads of Bill coming before the committee. I look forward, as I said, to the presentations and the advocacy that will take place on that. I want to make it good legislation that is survivor-centred. I am happy to engage with the report that the committee brings forward on that legislation. I cannot speak for the DPC, but I know it is engaged in ongoing correspondence with the commission.

I take the Deputy's point that the right to rectification can only do so much to bridge the gap between what was said and what goes on the record and I accept that. Since these tapes are fully deleted, all I can do is seek to bridge that gap in the way that I can. We are looking at the right to rectification. If we do that in the context of a clear statement from each person who has been before the confidential committee, that will be a powerful piece. It is part of the response to concerns about the cold and legalistic nature of the language.