Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 96: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received any of the outstanding reports from the Morris tribunal; if not, when he expects to receive them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21076/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Morris Tribunal has completed its oral hearings in relation to all modules of its terms of reference and is now finalising its two final reports. One of these reports will deal with allegations that two senior members of An Garda Síochána acted with impropriety. The other will deal with allegations of ongoing harassment of the McBreartys and their extended family and how their complaints to the Garda Síochána Complaints Board were dealt with.

The Chairman has previously indicated to my predecessor in writing that he hopes to submit his two remaining reports to the Minister by mid June 2008. Under the terms of the resolution passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas on 28 March 2002, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform is obliged, save in exceptional circumstances relating to potential criminal prosecutions, to lay any report before the Houses of the Oireachtas within 14 days of its receipt.