Yesterday, the solicitor representing the disabled woman known as Grace released a shocking statement on the Farrelly commission report. Ms Marie-Claire Butler said her "considered and extensive submissions" to the commission were not included or referred to in any way in the report and that she felt the need to bring this to light. Grace is the person at the centre of years of many reports into her neglect and prolonged exposure to risk of abuse in a foster home in County Waterford. She has been tragically failed over and over. She has been at the mercy of years of concealment, deflection and neglect by the HSE and successive Governments. There has been no accountability for any of this. There were already so many questions about the Farrelly commission before this statement was released yesterday. Does the Taoiseach agree that we urgently need to see Ms Farrelly SC and the Minister, Deputy Foley, appear before the Joint Committee on Disability Matters to answer questions on this issue?

The Minister is not responsible for the inquiry or how it was conducted. Let us not try to politicise this. Let us look at the fact that the commission of investigation was established. The statement by the General Solicitor for Minors and Wards of Court is very serious. There are limitations around the Commissions of Investigation Act. I have made the general point that commissions of investigation sometimes do not give the closure or outcomes that people correctly expect, notwithstanding the spending of millions. This is worrying.

The Minister is meeting the General Solicitor for Minors and Wards of Court on behalf of Grace. I will get a report of the outcome of that meeting. We are in very challenging territory because of the legal framework governing the establishment of the commission. A commission is independent. Everything that transpires within it is within the legal framework, including in respect of confidentiality and so forth.