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 Fergus O'DowdFergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Further to Ms Urwin's query to us, we have agreed that we will circulate to all members of the committee proposals which members have put forward. We will get agreement on the wording in the next couple of days and when we have done that we will circulate the proposals to Ms Urwin and Mr. Brecknell to ensure it fulfils what they would like us to do. We will then do that if that is agreed by everybody.

I thank the witnesses for their courtesy, for their command and knowledge, for their interest and dedication and most of all for their commitment to getting the truth, justice and the facts, notwithstanding the huge number of years that have elapsed since all of these killings took place. A lady from my town, called Concepta Dempsey, was killed in the Dublin bombings. I knew her mother well as she was a famous Fine Gael member. She was the first ever Fine Gael member of Drogheda Borough Council on which she served for a number of years and her son, Raymond Dempsey, Lord have mercy on him, was Lord Mayor of Drogheda Town Council on three separate occasions. We all have memories of people.

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