A legal adviser to the Leinster branch of the Irish Amateur Swimming Association has said that only a judicial inquiry will suffice for the Government's investigation into child sex abuse in swimming.
Mr Tom Baldwin, the branch's honorary legal adviser for the last three years, called on the Minister to give judicial powers to the inquiry.
"People in the organisation should be compelled to appear in front of an inquiry and they should be made produce all the documentation they have concerning the matter."
The Fianna Fail TD for Dun Laoghaire, Ms Mary Hanafin, said she agreed with the decision not to hold a judicial inquiry. The Oireachtas should assert its own inherent power of inquiry, she said.
The success of both the Finlay and McCracken tribunals had led to a public appetite for judicial inquiries, but they had also given rise to the mistaken belief that a judicial tribunal of inquiry should be "the first port of call in any process of inquiry", she said.