Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I hear Professor Rolston. That is why I raised the question. It is why it is important that those of us who are in political parties or different organisations, such as Professor Rolston, renew the presentation of our views and opinions to people in opposition, or who might be in government in the UK in future. That is the only point I wished to make.

I will make another point. I acknowledge and agree fully with what has been said. I have no issue with it, but I am also concerned about what is happening regarding people who committed murders and crimes on the side of the nationalist or republican community. I will make an appeal now, if I may. The committee visited the site where Columba McVeigh was murdered and is believed to be buried. His body has never been found. He has been buried for more than 48 years in a huge, lonely bog in County Monaghan beside the Border. From talking to those families, which I know the representatives do, I want to represent our concerns for everybody who suffered and whose family members were murdered, whoever they were. On the disappeared, whose bodies have not yet been recovered, do the witnesses have any view on what additional pressure we can put on people who might know about those deaths and where those bodies might be found?