Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I do not want to have meetings for the sake of it. I would like there to be a purpose and a conclusion to a meeting, following which we could move on. It might be in everyone's interest to await the advice of the Attorney General's office on this matter. As I said, I had expected that we would be able, following the reversal of the Abbeylara case decision, to have an Oireachtas investigation into this matter of public importance. However, that is not now possible. We must consider what is the best thing to do in the interests of those to whom the Deputy referred who feel hurt, rightly so, at what happened in these horrific cases. From that point of view, I will inform the House and Deputies from the north east as soon as the Attorney General's advice is to hand.

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