Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

I wish to raise two or three matters. It was promised some time ago that when the second prosecution was completed in the Roscommon incest case, the Roscommon incest report would be published and it would be debated in this House. The second prosecution, which resulted in the conviction of the father, was completed some six weeks ago. When will the Roscommon incest report be published; will it be published before the House goes into recess for the summer vacation and will the House have an opportunity to debate what is in that report?

Second, on the promised legislation that was referred to under what I would describe as the unofficial leaders' items this morning, as I understand it, we have now been told that tomorrow evening the HSE will publish the figure of the number of children who, it understands, died in care in the past decade. I also understand it will not publish the figure of the number of children reported to be at risk in the past decade who have subsequently died. Could the Tánaiste confirm that?

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