Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

We have no involvement. Officials make that determination based on the legislation. From what I have been told in respect of these matters, information at the time would have been given by community and church leaders and other individuals who would name people with no level of proof or examination of proof. It is the same as what happened in respect of the various reports we received from former Mr. Justice Hamilton and Mr. Justice Barron that intelligence from the ground might say a, b or c but that there is no level of proof in that. Information like that could not be put into the public domain.

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