Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Nobody has raised the Dublin-Monaghan bombings in the Dáil as much as I have over the years because my constituency is Cavan-Monaghan. Ms Urwin and her colleagues met the former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Charles Flanagan. Deputies Crowe, Maureen O'Sullivan and I had a meeting with the Minister on the same day. To be fair to the Minister, he was very much engaged on the subject, as were the senior officials who accompanied him, including the current ambassador to Britain, Mr. Adrian O'Neill. The Minister and his officials were very forthcoming with us on the issue and the engagement was very good from our point of view. I am an Opposition Deputy and it is not my business to defend the Government but to be fair to the former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Flanagan, Mr. Adrian O'Neill and their colleagues, I want to put that on the record. We need to ensure maximum pressure is put on the British Government such that this matter is not an item on an agenda to be ticked off. That is the wish of all of us.