Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

We have little more than a month in the southern State to act on this. Given that most of that month will be taken up with Christmas holidays, with elected representatives back in their constituencies and offices closed, there is really about a fortnight left of the period during which the Irish Government has to make a decision about this. It is critical. Heaping the responsibility on victims to bring this case to the European Court of Human Rights is a disaster because it requires enormous time, effort and resources on the part of voluntary and campaign groups to launch such an action . The level of pressure on a Government to do similar is far less. It would be far less intrusive for a southern Government to do that. The onus is on the southern Government to act with immediacy.

I asked this question of the previous contributor too. We need to create an alternative source of justice and truth to the one available through London.

Aontú has produced a Bill that seeks for the establishment of a commission of investigation in the South of Ireland into people who have been killed and have suffered as a result of actions taken anywhere on the island. Obviously, that commission of investigation would be limited as regards forcing people outside of this jurisdiction to provide evidence. It could do stuff which would be valuable in its own right within this jurisdiction but would also be able to take voluntary evidence from people outside the jurisdiction in the North of Ireland, in Britain and elsewhere. If such a Bill were also passed through Stormont, it would then have an all-Ireland element to it in the context of the ability to force people in the Thirty-two Counties to participate. The commission of investigation would also allow for all the evidence that has been produced in so many different locations to be gathered in a central space to be properly analysed in order to then decide on the exact narratives of actions that were taken by the British state in terms of killings North and South. What is Mr. Ó Muirigh's view on that?