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:

Quickly on the murders, I do not know whether politicians in Dublin are aware of this. Since the ceasefire in 1994 between the UVF and other parties, the UVF has murdered 32 people within the unionist community. No inquiry was called for by unionist politicians. One was my son, Raymond. The prosecution in one case was a double murder because one of them walked in with a sawn-off shotgun. What other city or country in the world would have had 32 murders by groups in a ceasefire and still give them funding? What other country in the world would have a chief constable who could keep his job with no convictions when 32 murders were carried out by an organisation that a report showed is riddled with police informants and is run by an MI5 agent?

Several years ago when I was in Dublin, former Deputy Pat Rabbitte named the chief of staff as a special branch agent in the Dáil. He was an MI5 agent but he was a state agent. The person who runs the UVF is controlled by the state. Other people came to Dublin and their training was paid for by Dublin. I think it was the Dublin Government that paid them. His own group unit was responsible for the hoax bomb in Belfast last week. Money is coming from Dublin to give to an individual who belongs to an organisation that was involved in the bomb scare in Belfast. That is only the tip of the iceberg. We are saying to the committee today that the main issues for us are the amnesty proposals. Another big issue is to turn around and say let us ensure the money goes to the people who deserve it and will use it for the benefit of the people and not themselves.

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