Emer Currie (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will finish the point. In my experience, criminal investigations are required to get to the truth because people are not showing they are willing to come forward. What is it about the Truth Recovery Process approach that it believes would change that? In addition, verifying the truth is an important part of this as well. We have seen that through our deliberations on and analysis of the British Government's legacy proposals. There is no threshold for truth in its current proposals. What would be different about the Truth Recovery Process proposals?

We all are in agreement that something has to be done. Why this approach instead of something like the Stormont House Agreement, which relies on the European Convention on Human Rights and access to criminal investigations to seek the truth? I agree on the point made about the chances of getting prosecutions, but that is up to the families and the particular cases. I suggest we have also seen that, in order to get to the truth, a justice route is also needed to get there. You may not get to that destination but you certainly need that path.