Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for the reply. Because it is the case I am most familiar with, I want to raise the Kerry babies case. The initial inquiry was a total whitewash and while Joanne Hayes and her family were vindicated through a settlement, there are a number of outstanding issues. One is that the apology did not go far enough. For the gardaí to say the investigation fell far short of the standards of a police investigation must be the understatement of the century. It has never been explained. As their solicitor, Mr. Patrick Mann, has often said, how was it that five or six members of the same family in different rooms in one Garda station all made statements that could not possibly have been true? That needs to be explained. It needs to go beyond an apology and it needs to be explained how that happened. Ms Hayes probably does not have confidence in any investigation but it is important that she gets an answer.

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