Victims have expressed their frustration at the pace of the Commission of Investigation into the Bill Kenneally case.
The Justice Minister has promised a progress report into the Commission's work, which got underway in 2018. Victims met with Minister Helen McEntee last week to voice their concern.
Speaking on Deise Today, Colin Power said that there's been "very little communication" with the survivors or their legal team to date.
He told Damien Tiernan that Minister Helen McEntee "got two years of pent up frustration, anger and disappointment" during the meeting but she "acknowledged" their concerns and has promised a follow up meeting in the coming weeks alongside a progress report from the Commission.
Jason Clancy, who was also speaking on the programme, said that their confidence in the Commission has been damaged: "We've had to campaign to get the Commission and it feels like now we've to campaign again now to get the Commission to do its work. It's very disheartening. They should be instilling confidence in us and they've absolutely not done that."
Mr Clancy also disagreed with claims that the Commission's slow pace has been because of Covid. "It was stuck in the mud a long long time before Covid even arrived. Yes, Covid presents issues for everybody's work but we weren't happy for a long time well before Covid."
Colin Power pointed to the approximately €1m cost of "taxpayer's money in preparatory work" so far, but "no results" have been seen so far.
"Like you have to go back and remember, this was set up by the Government to do a job and it's about time it started to do the job in my opinion," he said.
