Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Legacy Issues: Commission for Victims and Survivors
Declan Breathnach (Louth, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I propose, as Ms Thompson has just said, that this committee call on that action that she has just referred to and that we write, as a committee, calling for that action. Without wanting to come back in, separate to that I omitted to say that I thought it is appropriate when we are dealing with the issue of the victims and survivors that this committee in whatever capacity would publicly call on those who have not returned the bodies of the disappeared, namely, Seamus Ruddy, Joe Lynskey and Robert Nairac, to provide any information. The Commission for the retrieval of the disappeared is doing its very best. However, without people coming forward with that information the issue of people not having closure remains. It is incumbent on us to publicise the need for people to do that. The fact that Brendan made reference to the fact that people are ageing. People out there have information and it should be provided before it is too late.
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