Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will return to the Women of Honour. How can the Taoiseach proceed with a so-called independent inquiry where the terms of reference have not been drawn up the Dáil or the women who courageously came forward and made known what they had suffered? They also pointed out that all the previous reviews and policies had utterly failed to protect women and men in the Defence Forces. The Taoiseach will now proceed with an apparently independent inquiry, which it is not, in which the women have said they will not be participating. Does that pose a dilemma for the Taoiseach?

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