The families of the victims of the Stardust tragedy face an even longer wait for answers.
48 young people died in a blaze at the Valentine's Night disco at a nightclub in Artane on Dublin's northside.
The Attorney General's office this week missed another deadline to respond to the request for a new inquest. It's the second self-imposed deadline the office has missed. A decision is now expected before the end of this month.
Eugene Kelly's brother Robert died in the fire.
He says he's furious -- and even after nearly four decades, time is still of the essence.
"They want to be calling in the people who saw the fire first-hand. Taxi drivers, people that were in the building at the time -- they were never called in to give their point [about] what they'd seen at the time the fire actually took place," he said.
"I'm very disappointed as regards of all these Governments and Oppositions down the years, treating these mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters -- it's a disgrace the way we had to go out and fundraise over the years.
"Telling us what they're going to do what they're going to do if they get into power, and as soon as they get into power they renege on it.
"With the Attorney General, he had a lot of time to view these and we keep getting pushed back from pillar to post and I'm not very pleased with it at all," he said.
Eugene Kelly says down the years, the tragedy has never been taken seriously by the State because of the social class of the victims.
"Charlie Bird made the point which I've always said myself: If it had have been on the southside it would have been sorted out years ago. I guarantee if one of those ex-Taoisigh's kids or daughters that'd be well ironed out -- it's the fact that we came from a working class area," he said.
"I know as I said to Leo [Varadkar] it wasn't on his watch, but he has a good chance to correct the record and get these mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, to get closure once and for all."
