Public Inquiries

Health Minister Robin Swann has announced that he is calling a statutory public inquiry into the abuse reported at Muckamore Abbey Hospital. The inquiry follows two reports into the abuse at the hospital, and comes alongside an ongoing major police investigation.

Mr Justice Peter Charleton, the Supreme Court judge who chaired the recent Disclosures Tribunal, has called for a "rebalancing" of the tribunal of inquiry system, warning that their functioning is becoming "close to impossible". The senior judge made the remarks in the 19th Annual John Hume Lecture,