Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their informative presentations. I will raise a couple of issues. We met with the Taoiseach on Monday. I met with members of the Mullen family, the daughters of Denis Mullen, who was murdered by the Glennane gang, and a member of the O'Dowd family. We put the questions to the Taoiseach around the sharing of information. It is mind-blowing that information in the hands of the State would not be made available to the Denton review. John Finucane introduced a bit of caution there and he may be right. Could either of the witnesses speak to that caution? Is is something we need to be worried about? Should we as a committee ask for a letter to be sent to the Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice to the effect that the review of the legislation as it stands should be complete to see whether we can transfer that information and, if we cannot under the current legislation, in the new year legislation be introduced to make sure the process can start? It is critical that people are aware that so many individuals whose lives have been touched by these murders are in the last years of their lives. In the O'Dowd family the father is in his 90s. If the meeting with the Taoiseach had happened a couple of years earlier, he would have been able to make it but because of his mobility he was not able to on that day. Should we as a committee, gung-ho, seek for legislation to provide that transfer of information or is there logic in being cautious?