Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I am extremely disappointed with the Taoiseach's reply on this matter. Whatever the legal reasons may be, four people died in this tragedy, including two young children who were not given a chance of continuing their lives. We need to know what went wrong here, what went astray. It is not a matter of curiosity; it is a matter of trying to learn lessons from this tragedy in an effort to avoid this type of tragedy occurring again.

There is a way that the report can be published. It can be brought to a committee of the House where it would enjoy the normal privilege of the House. I put it to the Taoiseach that he, the Minister of State with responsibility for children and the Minister for Health and Children seated next to him, should find a way to do that. This is about finding out what happened here and learning some lessons from it.

I have never seen a report where the recommendations were blanked out. How do we learn from a report if we do not know what are its recommendations?

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