Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If it is a priority, why will the Government not publish the ODCE report? It makes no sense.

There are many unanswered questions about the FitzPatrick trial, the ODCE's handling of it, the Garda's involvement and the decision to pursue a second trial. I may be cynical, but it seems that this suits the Government because it wants the issue to go away and is happy to hide behind the Attorney General's advice not to publish it. As legislators, we will be expected to sign off on a new body - a beefed up ODCE - in the near future, but how can we consider the new legislation when we cannot even see where the problems arose in the past? Does the Minister not believe that, in the interests of democracy and in the public interest, it is crucial that the Government publish the full ODCE report as soon as possible?

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