Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are all very familiar with the tragic death of Shane O'Farrell and the extraordinary courage and perseverance of his mother to seek justice and to seek answers to questions the O'Farrell family has long been putting and has not really got answers to. This Dáil unanimously agreed that there would be a public inquiry and a scoping inquiry was announced by the Minister for Justice and Equality last February. He was very clear that Mr. Justice Haughton would be independent and would remain independent in the course of his inquiry, and that no restrictions would be placed on him or on his observations, deliberations and submissions. This was genuinely accepted and he produced a set of terms of reference for a commission of investigation. However, it seems that the Department of Justice and Equality subsequently changed the terms of reference and narrowed them, which has caused a lot of distress. I ask the Government and the Minister to respond to this and to end the torture the family is going through, by doing what people want to be done.

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