Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Thanks Chair and Deputy. If we were to launch a statutory inquiry, one of the questions we would have to be able to answer is whether the legal teams of those currently under investigation by their employer will say that those investigations have to stop. They could say that they have to be paused and they could be paused for two, four, eight or ten years. I hear the family with all of my heart and we have to do right by the family. The only thing I am saying is that statutory inquiries do not necessarily do what we all want them to do.

I am delighted to have received the letter last night. The Taoiseach and I will meet Carol and James and will have this conversation with them. We will tease it all out but I want to assure the committee that the only thing that matters to me in this is Aoife and her family.