Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

The Government continues at every level to make progress on the issue of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. I have raised this again with the Prime Minister and will try to make as much progress as possible on this. He is aware of the recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights, which I support. We must see what progress we can achieve on this issue. It comes down to whether we will have an inquiry similar to the Cory inquiry, either in the United Kingdom or in Northern Ireland, or in both under the one jurisdiction. We have made our position clear on the question of having that kind of investigation, as we have on the Finucane case. I have already answered the other issues raised by the Deputy.

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