James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

I support my two colleagues' call for full transparency on the investigations taking place. The Government has a terrible tendency to delay reports. It is eight years since a young child died in care and we are receiving the report now. However, I will stick to the Malahide issue, which was extremely serious and in which several hundred people could have drowned. The report and the bit of information we have to date suggests that nobody knew and it was nobody's fault because people left and they did not tell other people. What sort of a company are we running? We are back to PPARS - nobody is responsible or accountable. Fortunately, nobody was killed. Is this lack of culpability, responsibility, accountability and transparency in a semi-State body acceptable to the Minister?

It is not acceptable to me or to people in my constituency or elsewhere in Ireland.

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