Dáil debates

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions

Air Accident Investigations

10:35 am

Photo of Seán Ó FearghaílSeán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his reply and I acknowledge his deep personal interest in this matter. He will be aware that the Jevens family has grave concerns about a multiplicity of matters surrounding the court of inquiry. They understand it was the third of three inquiries held into the accident but in numerous correspondences, they raised serious issues relating to what they see, and which appear to be, significant breaches of military regulation. However, my clear understanding from them is that when they last met the Chief of Staff and the Secretary General of the Department in recent weeks, they were given an undertaking that the court of inquiry report, which they had previously understood to have been signed off on by the previous Chief of Staff but which had not been, would be the subject of an addendum by the current Chief of Staff that would take into account concerns the family had about evidence given by a civilian witness and a then serving member of the Defence Forces.

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