Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

-----and to fulfil its mandate to completion and have itself abolished. In and of itself, that is novel. The background dates back as far as, and probably much further than, the starting point instanced by the Chairman of the committee, Deputy O'Rourke, that is, the report on the Kilkenny incest case by Ms Justice Catherine McGuinness, then a senior counsel. I was Minister for Health at that time and I asked Catherine to take on the difficult job of looking into the aftermath of the Kilkenny incest case.

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