Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am glad to have the opportunity to talk about this important subject. Good living people all over the world, in whatever country they are in, look up to the police. Instead of doing their job fairly and properly, police in Northern Ireland threw petrol on the flames at that time. The report has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was collusion at a high level between the RUC and loyalist paramilitaries. When we talk about the RUC, we can be sure that what happened went all of the way to the top, including whatever Ministers were in government at the time. They were and are responsible for what happened. When we talk about specific police or soldiers who carried out atrocities or were involved in them, politicians at the highest levels were certainly involved as well. When campaigning during the last election, Boris Johnson said that if he was elected he would grant an amnesty to former policemen. Our thoughts are with the families of those who lost family members or friends and relatives in this way. To deny justice in this way would cause further heartbreak to families, relatives and friends. After all, this happened only an hour up the road from us.

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