Mr. Luke Bukha:

We have known about their deaths since October 2012. These are people we know, and we know they are dead. The only difference is we know more about them than we know about other people. We are giving this number for the last ten years because no one gives the true figure. It is not about disappearance, which is different, these are people we know. We know that last year two men died of stroke, both of whom were living in Cork.

Previously we were not documenting these events but we have started to take images. Even at one of the horrible deportations, when a woman was taken naked by the gardaí, we told people to take images on mobile phones. We did not post those images online out of respect. These are people we know. If this was about disappearances, we might be talking about hundreds of people but from the numbers of deaths from what the Minister said in 2010 are around 49 and 52. We had more deaths last year and the number increased to 55. That is the information we got after discussions in Parliament when we asked some sympathetic TDs to ask questions. We hope to get answers.