Seanad debates
Thursday, 12 September 2002
Order of Business.
During the summer the Court of Criminal Appeal decided that the conviction of Mr. Frank Shortt, from Quigley's Point in Donegal, was wrong and the decision of the court was overturned. Mr. Shortt spent over three years in jail. The Morris tribunal which is scheduled to deal with alleged Garda irregularities in Donegal in October does not list the Frank Shortt case as one of its terms of reference. It is the only term of reference excluded where a court has actually adjudicated that it was a wrong conviction. I urge that we look at the possibility of amending the terms of reference of this tribunal. I agree that we should recall the House at the earliest date to deal with these urgent issues.
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