The commission of investigation into the State’s response to allegations of child abuse against convicted paedophile Bill Kenneally is to meet for the final time next week behind closed doors - according to the Irish Examiner.
The commission has confirmed that two final days of submissions from the various stakeholders to the commission will take place on January 23rd and 24th.
“The sitting is specifically to take submissions from the interested parties and is being held strictly in private,” a spokesperson for the commission said.
It is unclear why the final hearings are to be held in private.
While some previous testimony had been held in private, this was predominantly the case while criminal proceedings against Kenneally were still live.
Kenneally, a 74-year-old former basketball coach, is currently serving a 19-year sentence for the indecent assault of 15 boys in Waterford between 1979 and 1990.
The hearings next week will see submissions made by all of the parties with an interest in the case — including the victims, An Garda Síochána, the HSE, Basketball Ireland, and Kenneally himself — in response to the final written submissions made by all concerned following Kenneally’s testimony last year.
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