Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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337. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the handling of the Stardust fire tragedy. [46040/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am aware of the correspondence referred to by the Deputy. Following my meeting with the Stardust Victims Committee last year I appointed an official in my Department to liaise with them in relation to matters about which they have expressed concern.

A researcher associated with the Stardust Victims' Committee submitted material relating to these events to my Department and a meeting was held with them and another researcher associated with the Committee, on 23 April this year. The official in my Department who liaises with the Committee undertook to examine this material and, following such an examination, a draft preliminary analysis was prepared in my Department and this draft was issued to the Committee in July of this year. The Committee were invited to examine this draft analysis and provide any commentary they wished to make on it. The Committee's response to this draft analysis was provided by way of a presentation made by researchers associated with the Committee; this presentation was made on 30 September 2015. The views and materials presented at that meeting have now been examined in my Department and on 30 November further documentation was issued by my Department to the Committee in this connection.

The Committee has been in contact with my Department in recent days and have indicated that there is further material that they wish to be considered by my Department; they have informed my Department that such material will be submitted early in the new year.