Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement

Mr. Raymond McCord:

We all know what needs to be done in every district of Belfast, particularly its unionist areas where the paramilitaries have control. It has been recommended that we put it down on paper for London. It would only be a couple of lines. However, what if politicians stopped supporting and covering up for the paramilitaries, stopped having no problems with the paramilitaries getting money, looked after the people who voted for them and stopped these people who were destroying communities and poisoning kids? We do not need big reports. You can see this paper here. Put it on the front page or the back page of that sheet and give it to one of the committees at Westminster. I have seen some of the people who have been invited to Westminster trying to get over there. I believe it was Claire who was contacted about it.

Nothing has happened. At meetings like this one, politicians ask what we need, but we all know what we need to do. Dr. Farry has been a good supporter of ours over the years. I will not sit here and patronise or butter him up because he knows I would tell him.

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