Finucane announcement
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00:00extremely seriously. The plain fact is that two decades on, the commitment made by the
00:09Government, first in agreement with the Irish Government and then to this House, to establish
00:15an inquiry into the death of Mr Finucane remains unfulfilled. It is for this exceptional reason
00:25that I have decided to establish an independent inquiry into the death of Patrick Finucane
00:32under the 2005 Inquiries Act. I have, of course, met Mrs Finucane and her family, first on
00:4025 July to hear their views and again yesterday to inform them of my decision. Mrs Finucane
00:48asked the Government to set up a public inquiry under the 2005 Act and, as I have just told
00:54the House, the Government have now agreed to do that in line with both the 2019 Supreme
01:02Court ruling and the Court of Appeal judgment in July this year. In making this decision,
01:10I have, as is required, considered the likely costs and impact on the public finances. It
01:17is the Government's expectation that the inquiry will, while doing everything that
01:21is required to discharge the state's human rights obligations, avoid unnecessary costs
01:29given all the previous reviews and investigations and the large amount of information and material
01:36that is already in the public domain.