IRELAND
Irish Examiner
By Claire O’Sullivan
Irish Examiner Reporter
His defence comes after the UN committee that led to its establishment raised serious questions about the inquiry.
Speaking in the Dáil, Mr Shatter brushed off recent complaints from the UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) the report was “incomplete” and lacked “many elements of a prompt, independent, and thorough investigation”.
“The Irish Government is satisfied that the McAleese Report is an independent, comprehensive, factual account of these institutions … It also showed that many of preconceptions about these institutions were not supported by the facts,” he said in response to questions from Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald and Independent TD Maureen O’Sullivan.
In a recent letter to Irish UN representative Gerard Corr, the vice-chair of UNCAT was highly critical of the inquiry headed by former senator Martin McAleese.
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