Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for that. I would appreciate a slight explanation. I have had experience in training people for counselling post-genocide in Rwanda and have visited the genocide memorial in Kigali. It is powerful to hear the lived testimony of people in their own voices as one goes through it. It is an incredibly moving experience and it brings one into the experience of all that happened. There is no doubt that if something similar to that will be our outcome here, that we would be a valid memorial and a lesson to future generations in Ireland as well as to our own. That would be valuable.

I understand we would want to avoid a legal route, because the legalistic approach removes the person-centred testimony that was shared. However, is that the only reason? Once the State allows for matters to go on the public record, how is that protected?

If we are not going to a review because there are legal complexities, why are the same legal complexities not arising in the context of a memorial? I just want to understand that.