Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses are very welcome. I have a very strong memory of the discussions that took place here on Templemore and the associated issues. The discussions took place in May 2017.

There are probably only about half a dozen issues that stand out from that Committee of Public Accounts and that is one of them. It took 12 weeks for the committee to write its report and then took six years and three months to send the results of the GSOC investigation, which is a public interest investigation, to the DPP. We have just heard it is part of what was raised here. Do the witnesses agree the public interest is not served by such a delay?