Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

More recently in the budget €15 million was provided for the implementation of the Ryan report. It is not true to say that nothing has changed.

This was a non-statutory inquiry. People co-operated with the inquiry. In general it is easier to get people to co-operate with non-statutory inquiries because they expect their own confidentiality and that of the inquiry to be respected. I hope the actions of the past 24 hours do not change that.

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