asked the President if his attention has been drawn to the recommendation of the Coroner's jury on the 4th inst. in regard to the murder of Christopher Breslin and Joseph Kiernan, that the relatives of the deceased in each case be compensated by the Government, and if he will say if this recommendation will be accepted by the Executive Council. Further, to ask if he will cause a public enquiry to be held into the circumstances of these murders, as revealed in the evidence given at the inquest?
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. [ ORAL ANSWERS. ] - RECENT DUBLIN INQUESTS.
The answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. The answer to the second part is that the Coroner's inquest was in itself a public inquiry, and the answer to the third part of the question is that before I received notice of this question from the Deputy I made enquiry and had been informed, by the Commander-in-Chief, that previous to my enquiry he had already instituted a military inquiry into this matter.
Arising out of the Minister's answer, may I ask will he reveal to the Dáil the result of the investigation instituted by the Commander-in-Chief?
That is not a matter for me. A Coroner's enquiry, as the Deputy and everybody else knows, is a public enquiry. It exhausted the whole subject, and the whole question. As regards the enquiry instituted by the Commander-in-Chief that is a thing apart, and not a matter for me.
May I ask whether the Minister for Home Affairs is not the responsible Minister to investigate a crime of this kind?
I do not know that that question arises out of the answer. If the question is to be put to the Minister for Home Affairs it ought to be put down on the Order Paper.
Arising out of the answer given by the President, are we to take it that the investigation made by the Commander-in-Chief—I mean the results of that investigation— are not to be revealed to the Dáil?
I have not said so.
Then in that case, are they going to be revealed to the Dáil?
I have not said so.
That question has been answered already.