Emer Currie (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to pick up on what Senator McGahon said there. I think what the Senator meant was that the people who could do the most did not do what they could do both at the meeting and in the past. My father was a TD up until 2002. He arranged meetings with the families of the disappeared and raised the issue plenty of times in the Dáil as well. As I said earlier, the disappeared are never far from my thoughts and my family's thoughts. The SDLP and the Alliance Party talk about thee disappeared a great deal, as has the Fine Gael Party, including Senator McGahon.

We do not need the Stormont House Agreement to come to a resolution of this issue. The people who have the answers can bring them forward to give peace to the families. I sincerely hope that today's meeting has moved that along and will send out a clear message that the disappeared are not forgotten. The idea of a publicity campaign is a good one. Anything we can do to bring peace to the families and bring their loved ones home, we will do.