Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

What I have said is that at the first hurdle, we need to ensure it has full public confidence. I do not believe that public confidence will be easily built if the organisation that first outlined these allegations, made the charges and highlighted some of the deficiencies that I think everybody has accepted existed in terms of the policies and procedures that were in place is not fit to say it is something that it endorses or believes has the capacity to make a set of findings that will address the issues that it brought to the fore in the first place. It would be a shame as much as anything else. I will not make a political charge. However, I think it would be a real shame if we got to that point.

What I am asking the Tánaiste to do is to ensure that does not happen. We know the way to ensure that does not happen is to go through each of the issues, point by point, sitting around the table. The Tánaiste said he is going to meet the group on Thursday. What I have asked is whether he will commit to reach agreement with them and not bring forward recommendations to Government that do have that agreement.

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