Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In May 1974 the single greatest act of carnage in the period known as the Troubles on our island resulted in the deaths of 44 innocent people from Dublin city and Monaghan town.

The Dáil, in 2008 and 2011, unanimously passed a motion requesting the British Government to give an international eminent legal person access to papers and files relating to those bombings. Unfortunately, to date, the British Government has not reacted positively to a call from a sovereign Parliament.

Will the Minister ensure that he raises again with members of the British Government, at every opportunity he has, the need for it to respond positively to those calls by Dáil Éireann to release those papers and progress those investigations into the desperate and evil deeds that occurred in May 1974?

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