Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoireach agus leis na haíonna for the presentation. I was present at a presentation made in the audiovisual room a few years back which laid out in no uncertain terms about quicklime. I believe Seán Sherwin was explaining because he was one of those who oversaw the removal of The Forgotten Ten, the condition of the bodies and everything else. He explained much more to me than I had known at that stage. Basically, quicklime was not there to degrade those who are buried but to degrade the land around it, in some ways. Regardless of whether this is quicklime, if there are skeletal remains there, intact bodies or coffins, or whichever way our patriot dead have been buried, and if they are in an inappropriate place, then they should not be there.

If a family, or families in this case, are behind their reinterment the State should actively do it, not only facilitating the wishes of the families but also facilitating the wishes of those who were around at the time. This was not something that anybody in the nationalist republican movement at the time wished for and this State should have done something along the lines that it did in the case of the Forgotten Ten, eventually, in the case of Roger Casement who was brought back to Ireland, and in the case of Thomas Kent. There have been others. We should take the dignified steps and do this.

The map that has been sent in shows the location in Kilmainham where they are, basically facing the gateway. Was there any ground penetrative radar used or that type of thing? Has anybody done that?