Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to follow on from what my colleague has said. When it comes to debates about nationalist victims, Ireland's future or Border polls, Sinn Féin members are here in force.

They are organised, professional, they have their questions ready with the order of speakers and they fill both slots. Sinn Féin has two slots whereas the rest of us might get a second slot if time comes around. Today, however, Sinn Féin is not here. I remember sitting beside John Finucane MP on 18 November at a similar meeting with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains, and it was the same thing. Mr. Finucane spoke for four minutes and left the rest of the two slots vacant. As I was listening to Órfhlaith Begley today, it was interesting that she used the exact same words. I would invite anybody to go back and look at that. This generation of republicans wants to do something different, 13 of 16 people have been recovered and there are three that remain. They then move on to the next issue about legacy and then are happy to move on. It is deeply disappointing and cynical that this is the approach taken when, as members of the committee, we see the alternative approach that is taken by Sinn Féin on so many other occasions. I do not have any difficulty in saying that it has to be observed.

It was such a privilege to attend the Wave Trauma Centre and to listen to its members, including people who are not here today, for example, David Clements whose father was in the RUC and was murdered and Alan McBride who suffered deeply as a result of the Shankill bombing. It is a privilege to have representatives of the centre appear before the committee.

I have a simple question to ask. In their contact with republicans over the years, privately or in any way that they want to disclose, what do they say to the witnesses when they ask for help? What is their experience?