Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

Deputy Ó Caoláin raised the issue of debating the report prepared by Mr. MacEntee. I believe that report deserves time and consideration, and we will have to come back to consider it in this House, however we agree to do so. When the Deputy calls for a public inquiry into that particular atrocity, he should remember that on 21 November 1974, 21 people were killed in Birmingham. There was a massive miscarriage of justice and we have never had an inquiry. People much closer to him know the truth of all that.

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