Seanad debates

Wednesday, 13 November 2002

Lindsay Tribunal Report: Motion.

 

I wish to make a particular point in respect of the report by Judge Lindsay. The report has been kicked around in this House, the Lower House and the public arena since it was published. I sometimes think we gave the judge an impossible task. It is easy for politicians and commentators – people who did not attend all of the tribunal's sittings and were not obliged to weigh up the evidence presented – to castigate some of the findings of the report. I do not say that we gave the judge an impossible task by way of defending her. However, where issues of this nature have to be determined, it is important that we, as politicians, should take some responsibility. That is why I favour parliamentary inquiries and the sooner the better we move to introduce a system of parliamentary accountability where important issues of this nature are determined upon in the House by groups of Senators and Deputies. This would be a much more constructive way to investigate matters of this kind.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.