Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I agree. His parents were entitled to his body. They were entitled to see his grave. He is entitled to a headstone.

I cannot begin to express the level of distress that reading this list causes me. It brings me back to where this country was, when the orders of some individual unknown to me, the witnesses or anyone else could sentence another person to death and have him or her taken somewhere to never be found.

I compliment the commission on its work. I pray to God that it will find whatever bodies are left, thereby giving some closure to the mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers who to this day wonder what happened to their loved ones. The commission has found a number of bodies. Finding remains has not been easy for the families, but at least it has given them closure. At least they know that is it and the story is over. Now they can go and pay their respects on a daily, weekly or other basis. Nothing fills the vacuum left by the pain of losing a child but, for the most part, parents have somewhere to go. I pray that those who were radicalised, carried out these acts and may be living with their consciences today come forward and clear their own minds because, if there is a God - it is not for me to say whether there is or what form he or she may take - they will have to meet him or her some day and face final judgment. Come forward and give the commission the material it needs to finish the job it has started.