Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

——but the reason it was not published earlier is that there were complex issues arising from it. One of them, as Deputy Rabbitte correctly surmised, related to identification of certain parties and factual information relating to those parties. Second, there was an audi alteram partem issue. The Government considered that one individual had to be given an opportunity to respond to the matters raised in the report. That was done but it took some time.

It is regrettable that the family of Seamus Ludlow has not been included in the process as openly as one would have wished.

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