Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Justice for the Forgotten

Photo of Emer CurrieEmer Currie (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Carroll MacNeill has probed on questions that I was going to ask in order to try to understand this. We definitely need to follow up to make sure there are not barriers for Justice for the Forgotten and that Jon Boutcher is getting the information that he requires. I want to go back to what Mr. Brecknell said about who is affected by the command paper. He rightly points out that these are families that are seeking information. We had more than 50 different files before the Belfast High Court in regard to inquests and they need to proceed, and there are the Stakeknife files and that needs to proceed. I would also point out that there can be breakthrough cases, as we have seen recently. I do not want to see those families left behind. For me, all of the routes to justice should be available to people.

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