Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)

Last July, Sir, the Government agreed to establish an internal HSE inquiry, the McElwee inquiry, into the actions of an academic who was convicted of attempted indecent assault in Amsterdam in 2002. We were promised at the time that a report on the inquiry would be published in full as soon as possible. Why has the inquiry not concluded? The reason I ask is there was an expectation that all parties would fully co-operate with the inquiry when it was established on a completely voluntary basis. The House has a right to know if people are not co-operating because a more formal statutory inquiry might then be expected.

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