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

I thank all of the Deputies for their contributions to this debate. I have taken careful note of all that has been said. One of the fundamental rationales for a statutory inquiry, which would be a fact-finding statutory inquiry, is to get full compellability and full contribution in terms of everybody's perspective, and not just perspective but role. At the very outset I made it very clear in my opening contribution that the Department of Defence would be part of that inquiry and that it would be part of the terms of reference.

There have been a lot of insightful contributions. I, too, pay tribute to Senator Tom Clonan and his work. The independent monitoring group was established.

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