Mr. Oliver McVeigh:

I thank the Chair and all the committee members. The last time we met, I maybe got a bit carried away but maybe not. I spoke from the heart. We are all waiting and I feel the same way as my sister sometimes. We talk about parties who can help, and the committee can help. We appreciate every bit of help but it all leads back to one party and one group, that is, Sinn Féin, the provisional movement and the republican movement, who can garner this information and make an effort to get it. Talk is cheap and we can talk all day but we do not need talk. We need actions. It needs to be brought to the highest possible level in Sinn Féin.

It is never spoken about by Deputy McDonald in the Dáil. I never hear it mentioned and have never heard any reports. A question was put to the deputy First Minister during time with Justin McNulty from the SDLP and she fudged it. She probably knows me personally but fudged the question and did not want to answer it. She talked about it in a roundabout way. It has never, I presume, been brought up at the Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis. If it is such a blight on their future and on the past, why can they not go to the efforts to make sure all the disappeared are found and get it out of their hair? We will not stop until we find the other bodies. We just want a Christian burial. We want to bring them home and bury them like everybody else has the right to do.

I urge members to keep pressure on the right people. The information that comes through, if there is any, from when I have been talking to the commission members on and off is that they need direct involvement with the people giving information rather than through an interlocutor, which is what is happening. That is like Chinese whispers. I tell someone and someone tells someone else. They will come on quicker and better with information if they get it directly from the people. These people have nothing to fear. They can be totally anonymous. We do not need or want to know them. If the bodies are found, we will be the first people to thank them. That might sound silly, but we will be the first people to thank them. As Ms Kerr said, we can come to terms with the death, but we cannot come to terms with not putting them in the grave.