Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I wish to raise two matters. A report on a fire in County Tyrone last November was released yesterday following an independent inquiry. We seem to be slower in receiving reports following independent inquiries. There was an independent inquiry into the tragedy in April 2007 involving the four members of the Dunne family in Monageer, County Wexford. I understand the report was due for publication in April this year but that this deadline was then extended by three months. I understand from reports yesterday that its publication is being delayed again. When will it be published and released?

The second issue I wish to raise arises from a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights yesterday involving a number of human rights organisations. It was established that over a seven year period every telephone, fax, e-mail and data communication between the United Kingdom and Ireland, including legally privileged and confidential information, had been intercepted and stored, en masse, by an electronic test facility operated by the British Ministry of Defence. This breaches the human right to privacy.

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