Ms Anne Morgan:

I would like to say something on the whereabouts of my brother, Seamus Ruddy, who was buried by the INLA in France. When I was trying to get information I went directly to members of the INLA and spoke with them.

It was through that that I actually found Seamus. The information came through two ex-prisoners. Under the Good Friday Agreement, those men were allowed out of jail. They carried on with their lives, got on with their careers or whatever else. Those two men were inside when my brother was killed. They had nothing directly to do with his murder. They were not there at the time he was shot. However, those two men had the information and it is now Sinn Féin's time to go back to all the ex-prisoners and all the men released under the agreement, get them around a table in a hotel or wherever else and get them talking because that could be the place where that information may be found. It is appealing to the conscience of those who have had a second chance. Those men may have this information that goes back 40 or 50 years.

We as a society need to look at what we have given the republican movement in this country and appeal to it. Sinn Féin MPs and councillors are at the front of this but the answers to these problems lie with the background staff, if you want to call it that. I mean the background members who were there at the time. Young Sinn Féin councillors or whatever do not know anything about this so they do not know where to go. It is now time for them to actually delve into this. They really need to delve into it and appeal to the members who were members at the time. They need to get back to them. At one stage we had a meeting with Gerry Adams and I said it to him, even. He said people have died. Granted, people have died and we know that, and they might have been present when our loved ones were killed. However, it was not the old men of the IRA who dug the graves. They would have had the young members digging those graves in those bogs for those men who were going to be killed. These were our sons and our brothers. Young men would have been involved in the disappearance of any of the disappeared. Now, 40 years on, we are talking about some people who might be in their 50s, some who might be in their 60s and even, I suppose, some who might be in their 70s. We have got the 50-year-olds right up to the 70-something-year-olds to appeal to.

It is time Sinn Féin put it to its ex-members and reminded the ex-prisoners they were the ones who got the best deal out of the Good Friday Agreement. The families of the disappeared are still trying to get a good deal from the agreement because three families, plus that of Lisa Dorrian, are still sitting waiting. You do not know what it is like. My appeal to Sinn Féin is to go back and make a concerted effort. It could let the families of the disappeared know the party is appealing to the ex-prisoners and to those who were members 40 years ago or whatever. It could let the families know it is doing that. We are not going to make a song and dance about it but it is about our knowing the party is putting in place and carrying through something that would help with Columba McVeigh and help the families bring their loved ones back and give them a Christian burial.

I think it is time that Sinn Féin put it together and helped all these Irish people buried secretly in Irish soil. My God. You have to appeal to them and find them. It is up to Sinn Féin as an organisation to sort this out.