It is a shocking indictment of the Government that she wrote: "The Commission has never been properly enabled by the Government to fulfil satisfactorily the functions conferred on it by the Oireachtas." This judgment is all the more damning of the Government when it is considered that it was passed by the person it chose to inquire into institutional child abuse. Ms Justice Laffoy is highly respected as a High Court judge and her independence and integrity have never been called into question. She does not have an axe to grind and she was merely seeking to do the job she was asked to do by the Oireachtas.