Shane O'Farrell was just 23 years old when he was killed in a hit and run. Shane was an exceptional young man and dearly loved by his family and his friends. He had a bright future ahead of him and this was cruelly cut short. The car the assailant was driving was pulled over by gardaí an hour before the incident. Inexplicably, the driver was allowed to continue despite having no insurance, multiple breaches of bail conditions and warrants out for his arrest. Less than an hour later, Shane had been killed. Shane's family have been fighting for truth, justice and answers for almost 13 years now. When will the Government establish an independent public inquiry into the death of Shane?

I am very familiar, as are Deputies across the House, with this case. Again our sympathies go to the O'Farrell family. It was a young life. Shane's life was cruelly cut down. The scoping inquiry that was established took a lengthy period of time to come to conclusions. I believe the inquiry was comprehensive. It came to a number of conclusions in respect of what happened. The family were not in agreement with those conclusions and aspects of that report. We must weigh up what would be the focus of the public inquiry and whether it is in everybody's best interest that the tribunal of inquiry structure we are familiar with is the best vehicle to resolve some of these issues. I say this genuinely because I have been in the House a relatively long time and have seen that some inquiries take up to ten or 15 years to come to a conclusion.

You have only wasted 13 years.

I have only recently-----

It has been 13 years since Shane was killed.

I know but it took three years to-----

If Members want to chat, they can do it afterwards.

I would say to Deputies that we can talk this through collectively. It is very easy to say "Let us have a public inquiry" and so on, but it has huge implications for everybody and may not get us to where we want to get to.

You may say that.