Cathy Bennett (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I will ask about the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. This has been going on for 51 years. The Garda has not been able to release documents for some reason. Is that an issue relating to funding or is something else going on that the Garda has not been able to release those documents? The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland is also now on the job trying to get those documents. Why have they not been released at this stage, 51 years after 34 died on 17 May 1974 in the Monaghan and Dublin bombings? No documents have been released. I believe the Garda still has six boxes of relevant material that has not been released. Is it an issue of funding or why has that not happened? Has the Minister for justice indicated to An Garda Síochána that he wants these files released? What is the issue there? Why have they not been released?