Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

Experts believe that to choose to use this legislation is to choose an inquiry that will prevent questions being asked and answered, rather than establishing the truth or allowing it to be revealed. If we passed legislation a year and a half ago called the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 that provides for a certain type of speedy, more efficient and certainly cheaper inquiry than we have been accustomed to, why is the Minister not using it instead of going back to the Dublin Police Act 1924, which he sought to apply in the case of Dean Lyons but had to change his mind? The impression one gets is that the Minister is either so chuffed with his discovery of this Act of which nobody knew that he wants to use it somewhere or the truth is being deliberately prevented from coming out.

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