Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Business of Joint Committee
Engagement with WAVE Trauma Centre

Mr. Oliver McVeigh:

I thank Deputies Carroll MacNeill and Currie for their time and involvement.

It was beautiful. It seems as though we are having a go at Sinn Féin. The young Sinn Féin members seem to be toeing the same party line, as Deputy Carroll MacNeill rightly says. If it comes when it suits them, they will do it but if it does not suit them they will not be there and they will not put the effort into finding these bodies. We need them to take the lead. They cannot be called, as Senator Blaney has said, true republican people. This is not a blight. We do not suffer in the same way as other victims of the Troubles. We are the unusual victims of the Troubles because we are still suffering. We are going through a 46-year wake, because we are the families of those who have not been recovered yet. It should be brought to the top table by Sinn Féin. They should go and do it and bring it to the table and talk about it openly, not as though it is a blight on their character. Please get these people to come forward. Time is not on our side. We need to do it now. This is why I greatly appreciate everybody keeping the pressure on now. We need to keep it on. We need to keep - for want of a better term and this is a bit crude - our foot on their necks.

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