Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left) | Oireachtas source

This is a question regarding a person who contacted the Taoiseach last year and told him he had information on gardaí being present in a room when a civilian was shot by gardaí and being ordered by his superiors to say he was not present. The Taoiseach passed this case on to the review panel. I ask him to consider the fact that in the past few months not one person from the review panel has contacted the person concerned to ask him what murder it was, who was murdered and who was there. How, in God's name, can a review panel recommend anything if this is the type of shoddy investigation that is ongoing? How can it deal with the case of Shane Touhey who was murdered in February 2002 when it does not consider information submitted? Will the Taoiseach be honest and admit that the investigation is a joke and not independent at all?

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