Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of commissions of inquiry or other formal investigations or inquiries being conducted in her Department; the name of these; the date they were established; the expected date the work is intended to be completed; the cost incurred to date; the estimated final cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6362/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I can inform the Deputy that there is currently one Commission of Investigation ongoing in my Department. The MacLochlainn Commission of Investigation was established under SI No. 346 of 2014 to investigate the fatal shooting of Mr Ronan MacLochlainn by members of the Garda Síochána in May 1998 in Ashford, Co Wicklow. The establishment of the Commission was proposed in settlement talks on a case taken by Mr MacLochlainn’s partner, Ms Grainne NicGibb, to the European Court of Human Rights. The Court struck out the case on foot of this proposal. Ms Mary Rose Gearty, SC, is Sole Member of the Commission and the total expenditure incurred to date is€1.153m.

On 16 May 2016 one person who is identified in the Commission's final report brought an application to the High Court seeking a direction pursuant to Section 35(1)(b) of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 that the report be amended before it is submitted to the Minister. The submission of the Commission's final report to the Minister must await the determination of this court application. Final costs of this Commission must await the decision on the application which is before the High Court.