Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

The Taoiseach promised last March that the Seamus Ludlow report would be published within weeks. It seems there were difficulties in this regard, perhaps arising from the advice of the Attorney General in regard to named individuals and so forth. Now that it will be released into the public domain through the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights, it seems regrettable that the family was not advised of the implications of this and invited to be present for the report's release through the committee. Will the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform initiate contact with the family or its representatives? Mr. Ludlow's family is aggrieved after this long wait that it received no notice of the report's imminent publication.

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