Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister says he is as impatient as I but the only difference between us is that he is in a position to do something about it, I am not. He is the Minister. This inquiry was established as a non-statutory inquiry because the Minister told us all stakeholders signed up to participate in this inquiry freely and fully. If all stakeholders signed up to participate freely and fully, why now are some of them trying to thwart the publication of this report, as we are led to believe? It is almost ten months since the process commenced although originally it should have taken 12 weeks. The criminal investigation is on the other side of the world. Is the Minister saying that an investigation in another jurisdiction prevents us from publishing this report? Have the Brazilian authorities written to the Department asking it not to publish the report?

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