Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 November 2014
288. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality regarding the Foy report of 2004, whereby consent was only given for the report to be used for further Garda and forensic investigations, if she will have this report removed from her Department's website. [45226/14]
View answerThe Report the Deputy refers to was furnished to my Department to advance the case being made by the Stardust Victims Committee for the holding of a fresh Inquiry into the Stardust Fire.
Subsequently, an Independent Examination of the Stardust Victims Committee Case for a Re-opened Inquiry was established. As part of the preparatory work for the Examination, the Solicitor for that Examination requested from my Department various background documents including the Report referred to by the Deputy. My Department complied with this request.
On completion of the Examination, the Report of the Independent Examination of the Stardust Victims Committee Case for a Re-opened Inquiry into the Stardust Disaster was laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas; it was also published on the website of my Department. The Report to which the Deputy refers is one of a number of reports of various natures that are contained in Appendix 9 (Expert Reports considered) of the Report of the Independent Examination.
The Report of the Independent Examination of the Stardust Victims Committee Case for a Reopened Inquiry into the Stardust Disaster is now part of the public record and it would not be appropriate for me to seek to remove part of an independent report of this nature from the public domain.
