The family of the late Patrick Finucane has taken issue with the description of him as "the republican solicitor" in the Garda report on the Abbeylara siege.
Mr Michael Finucane, the solicitor sought by John Carthy during the siege, said his family were appalled and distressed by the characterisation, which was "wholly unfair and unfounded".
He has asked the Oireachtas sub-committee examining the Abbeylara inquiry to examine this aspect of the Garda report and ascertain who was responsible for the description.
"While in practice as a solicitor in Belfast, my father endured one of the most hostile and difficult working environments imaginable. He was the subject of slurs and insults, both personal and professional, from RUC officers who sought to discredit him and his work by labelling him as partisan," Mr Finucane wrote in a submission to the sub-committee. "These slurs and insults were lies then, and they are lies now."
Mr Finucane's submission was one of 21 made to the joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality and Women's Rights. The committee invited submissions late last year after it published the internal Garda report into the Abbeylara shooting. Last month, the Oireachtas committee established a subcommittee to examine in public the internal Garda report on the shooting.
In another submission to the committee, AWARE - the support group for people with depression - said Garda negotiators failed to make a successful emotional link with John Carthy.
The staff association representing senior gardai last night criticised the decision by RTE to broadcast a Prime Time programme about the Abbeylara incident just as the Dail inquiry was beginning.
In a statement, the Chief Superintendents' Association said it was also disappointed at the decision of the Dail committee chairman, Mr Sean Ardagh, to appear on the programme.
It said: "It was impossible for gardai to appear and be heard due to the proximity of the Dail committee's proceedings and having regard to any further possible negative impact on that process."