Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

The Minister suggested earlier that Opposition Deputies who question the value of an internal review of procedures in the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions because the review will be carried out by a civil servant are somehow denigrating that process. The reason for the concern and scepticism on the part of some Members on this side of the House is partly based on recent experience. I refer, for example, to the Dalton report, which has been prepared by a senior civil servant but which cannot be brought to the floor of the House. Following its preparation, that report, in which people are named, was distributed without being discussed in the House.

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