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

I endorse everything Deputy Carthy said. I will not repeat it but I will repeat something I said earlier. In his report, the judge stated the Department of Justice raised concerns regarding the suggested changes the family wanted in the terms of reference and the terms of reference were comprehensively amended by the Department of Justice. Explain that, please. What was going on that the Department of Justice felt necessary to invite the family to look at and have input into the terms of reference and then comprehensively change them, according to the judge?

We have seven paragraphs explaining why Shane was part of his own problem because he did not have reflectors, a jacket or this, that and the other. What page in this report does it explain why a man with so many convictions was on bail and at liberty to kill? Will the Minister name the page where it states that and please explain to us why the Department comprehensively changed the terms of reference? Those are the words of Judge Haughton, not mine.

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