Emer Currie (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is great to have somebody in the room who has the experience of being on this side of the questions. We are all in agreement that something needs to happen when dealing with legacy. Otherwise, the past will just continue to haunt us. The time to do it is now for the reasons outlined in that the people concerned are dying, the information is harder to obtain the longer we go on, and there is consensus regarding the British Government's legacy proposals. Why not the Stormont House approach? From my experience, the truth is not coming out through the use of goodwill. Even when we look at the issue of the disappeared, in respect of which there is an amnesty, we have not seen all of the people who were murdered returned to their families. There is a culture of omerta and the people who have the information still have a huge amount to lose. Why does Truth Recovery Process believe its way would get the truth, when we do not have the signs we need indicating people are willing to engage in a process like that?