Irish Examiner View: Costs and time of public inquiries threaten role of hearings

Inquiries which are kept “within these walls” can be accused of failing the test of openness.

Honor Murphy and Karina Molloy, members of Women of Honour, outside Leinster House. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Barely a day passes without a call, of one kind or another, for an inquiry, of this type or that, into some aspect of failure by Government, business, or public body. 

Newspapers, including ourselves, are not backward in making such demands. This is because justice needs to be seen to be done and citizens must be reassured that avenues have been explored when they feel themselves on the wrong end of maladministration.