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

I thank the Minister sincerely for his interest. I keep raising this issue because we want to assure the families of the victims, and victims themselves, that we are determined, as a Parliament, to ensure proper and full investigations are carried out. Before the 41st anniversary of these awful deeds, a new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland will probably have been appointed by a new British Government. Will the Minister give us an assurance that, in his first engagement with the new Secretary of State or with members of the new British Government, he will raise this as a particular subject on which we need progress? It is absolutely unacceptable that there has not been a positive response by the British Government to the ongoing work of successive Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Trade and successive Governments, and the unanimous motions passed by this House on two separate occasions. I hope the Minister will raise this with the new incumbent, whatever party that person belongs to.

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