Mr. Justice Alan Mahon:

I cannot deal with this. The 2004 Act is quite specific. The complainant must be a member or former member of the Defence Forces, which precludes his or her widow or widower or child and so on from being the complainant. I presume this provision was originally framed like this to keep the complaints system in the form in which it is. It is necessary, therefore, for a person to have been a serving member of the Defence Forces within the last 12 months, obviously, if we are dating it in this context, and the person the complaint is being made about must be a member of the Defence Forces.