Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes. As I said, the report came to me, as Taoiseach, yesterday evening and I considered it. I said previously when we raised this matter that when the report arrived it would be received and announced to the House and not held. I am quite sure that, as usually happens, when people find that a report has been presented to a Minister, to the Government, or, as in this case, to the Taoiseach, there will always be questions about why it is not being published or dealt with.

I want to put an end to that. The report has to be redacted in part because of the personnel who are named and the surrounding issues which were pointed out by the senior counsel. That work is ongoing today and tomorrow and, as I said, the report will be published on Friday morning.

The Government will look at the setting out of terms of reference for the commission of investigation, as recommended by Mr. Guerin, to see how they should be structured, what it is the commission of investigation should look at and whether it should include GSOC and the analysis that took place by the different authorities - the Department of Justice and Equality, the Garda Síochána and so on. The terms of reference will obviously have to be debated here. The report is 300 pages long and needs to be considered carefully. It may not be appropriate, given its scale, for it to be debated next week, but that is a matter for agreement between the Whips. When Members read it, they will see for themselves the scale of what is involved. As I said, I would have been happy to have the report published immediately on receipt, but there is a clear recommendation that it be redacted for very particular reasons which I am sure Deputy Micheál Martin understands. That work is ongoing and the report will be published on Friday morning.

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