451 Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in the context of a parliamentary question reply from May 2011 which asked for him to outline the legal basis for withholding the Garda abstract report, copies of statements of witnesses, sketches and maps of the scene from families who have lost a loved one in a fatal road collision until after the Coroner’s inquest has been heard and his subsequent reply that should it become apparent to him that such documentation is not as a general rule being released to families he will give consideration to the enactment of legislation on the matter, he has carried out an examination of the availability of these documents to bereaved families and is preparing legislation to facilitate same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16116/12]

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451 Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in the context of a parliamentary question reply from May 2011 which asked for him to outline the legal basis for withholding the Garda abstract report, copies of statements of witnesses, sketches and maps of the scene from families who have lost a loved one in a fatal road collision until after the Coroner’s inquest has been heard and his subsequent reply that should it become apparent to him that such documentation is not as a general rule being released to families he will give consideration to the enactment of legislation on the matter, he has carried out an examination of the availability of these documents to bereaved families and is preparing legislation to facilitate same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16116/12]

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