The report of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform on the actions of court officials in the Sheedy case was published after an Oireachtas committee meeting yesterday.
The Committee on Justice, Equality and Women's Rights met briefly in public and agreed to publish the departmental report.
The committee's public meeting was preceded by a private meeting lasting over an hour, while the members read the report and agreed a statement. This was then read by the committee chairman, Mr Eoin Ryan, who said the committee considered publication of the report to be in the public interest.
The statement said: "The committee considers the content of the report to be of a very serious nature and intends, at an early date, to carefully and fully examine the report and the recommendations contained therein."
Mr Charles Flanagan (FG) formally proposed the adoption of the report. The appendices left many serious questions unanswered, he added.
Mr Brendan Howlin (Lab) endorsed the report and said: "It adds another tranche of information to the events which surround the Sheedy case. The two reports outline the personnel involved and how they happened. We still really have to find out why.
"There are conclusions from the uncontested facts. There remain clashes of evidence, and this committee is the appropriate venue, if the Dail so decides."
He said that summoning judges before the committee might involve the amendment of statutes, which the Dail should consider if necessary.
Adjourning the meeting, Mr Ryan said the committee would be anxious that the Minister for Justice would come in at the earliest opportunity and discuss the departmental report and the report of the Chief Justice published last week.