Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Is the Cabinet Committee on Justice Reform considering the panel of barristers review of a number of cases where individuals are demanding proper public inquiries into very serious allegations of Garda malpractice. In particular, has the committee considered, or will it consider, the ongoing call of Cynthia Owen for a full public inquiry into her case, which I have raised a number of times? Cynthia Owen alleges she was raped as a ten-year-old child and that gardaí were involved in her abuse. Her baby was brutally killed and evidence about that killing disappeared. When I last spoke to her legal representatives, they told me they still had no indication that there would be a proper public inquiry into this appalling case where the most serious allegations were made, including those against gardaí.

I draw the attention of the Taoiseach and the Cabinet Committee on Justice Reform to a question of international justice. This Thursday is the 28th birthday of Chelsea Manning, the imprisoned US whistleblower who did the world a great service in blowing the whistle on many of the nefarious and brutal activities of the US, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, and who is languishing in prison-----

See this speech in context