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

I am very familiar, as are Deputies across the House, with this case. Again our sympathies go to the O'Farrell family. It was a young life. Shane's life was cruelly cut down. The scoping inquiry that was established took a lengthy period of time to come to conclusions. I believe the inquiry was comprehensive. It came to a number of conclusions in respect of what happened. The family were not in agreement with those conclusions and aspects of that report. We must weigh up what would be the focus of the public inquiry and whether it is in everybody's best interest that the tribunal of inquiry structure we are familiar with is the best vehicle to resolve some of these issues. I say this genuinely because I have been in the House a relatively long time and have seen that some inquiries take up to ten or 15 years to come to a conclusion.

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