Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge that the Minister's answer is progress from the previous answers we have received. Being on the verge of completion is not an answer as to a timeframe. It then has to go to the Attorney General for his view and that will be sought before there is any publication of the scoping report.

I remind people generally in the public that this scoping exercise was sought as part of the journey for reaching the truth for the O'Farrell family. That journey, however, has actually become an odyssey and it has become an enormous task to get this over the line. It cannot be overstated how painful that has been for the family and how anxious they are to see the report.

Regardless of whether the Attorney General recommends a further inquiry, this will not go away because of the determination of the family and of those of us who support them. There will be the continued demand for a full public inquiry, which is based on the fact that we know there has been a litany of failures by the State and it is only due to the family itself lodging freedom of information questions that many of those failures of the State and of the justice system have been exposed. This, more or less, twisted the arm of the State to have this scoping exercise, which, I repeat, has been delayed inordinately.

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