Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This Parliament is being held in contempt. Rather than publishing the report, the Government is providing an account of a report that was commissioned to assess the reasons the longest criminal trial in the history of the State collapsed. All we know is that Judge Aylmer highlighted several inadequacies. On foot of that report, we commissioned from the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement a report into itself. We are now being given an account of the ODCE's report. This is a sanitised version when what we need is a full, honest and open account of what happened and why the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement failed to prosecute and carry through an investigation. As Judge Aylmer said, he had to strike out the case because of the incompetence and inefficiencies of the agency. We did not get accountability in the court and we certainly need to get it from the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. The Government is holding Parliament in contempt by providing a sanitised account of the report, rather than the full report. That is shameful. It should publish the report and be damned.

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