Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)

I raise with the Taoiseach the issue of a family in Sligo, the family of Jimmy Loughlin. Jimmy was murdered in 2018. Unfortunately, the person who killed him had a long-term mental health illness. The situation evolved over a number of years. The family is now looking to get a serious incident report from the HSE. The HSE is supposed to compile such a report. It started it but never finished it. When the family looked into the situation, they discovered that this man had years of engagement with mental health services and that there had been years of failure. An Garda Síochána even wrote to the HSE asking it to intervene because of the danger it felt this man posed when he had serious episodes. This situation arises for many people. The outcome at the end is often suicide but, in this particular situation, this family lost a loved one. They want that serious incident report to be completed and finished. Failing that, will the Government commence a full public inquiry into this situation? There was a similar situation in Nottingham in more recent times and the authorities there held a full public inquiry so that lessons could be learned and so that such a situation would not happen again. It is broader than this family's request but it is also about them getting a serious incident report into what happened.

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