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

Ms Margaret Urwin:

I agree with what Mr. Brecknell said about the age profile of the families that we represent. All the cases I read out are from the 1970s. We have one case from the 1990s, but the vast majority our cases are from the 1970s and the Operation Denton cases, of course, are all from the 1970s. Every year family members die. Several of them died in the last couple of years. It is urgent to get truth and justice for those families before they die.

Deputy Tully asked another question I did not answer about the body of historians that Senator McDowell set up when he was Minister for Justice and Equality. It seems to have been disbanded in 2009 and was never set up again. That was something we were promised during Mr. Justice Barron's committee hearings after the Barron reports were published. That was just quietly dropped in 2009.

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