Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for bringing our attention to the incredibly tragic events that happened in Creeslough. I remember the way in which the country rallied around at the time. Even earlier this year, one of the local GAA clubs came down to my local GAA club in Castleknock and there was a wonderful day of support. It is entirely reasonable that families are asking questions about how the events of that day and what preceded them took place. As the Deputy said, there is an active Garda investigation under way. It is important that anything we might do does not interfere with that, and I am sure he agrees with me on that.

We have to tease out what a potential inquiry would look like, what the families want to see from any such inquiry and what type of inquiry it would be. There are different mechanisms in that regard and they can and do achieve different results. The line Minister is considering this at the moment. I cannot give the Deputy a date today as to when we will have an answer for the families, but consideration is being given to the letter they have sent to the Government.

See this speech in context