Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his response but I must say respectfully that it is not good enough simply to raise these issues with the British Government. Imagine if it emerged that the Government in England had authorised the killing of a human rights lawyer, councillors or other politicians or hundreds of citizens in Scotland. Imagine what would happen if that emerged? That is what happened here. It is now a matter of record. The Minister, the British Prime Minister and everyone knows it. The Government has a very clear responsibility to put in place a strategy. I have asked the Taoiseach and Minister numerous times to bring together our international friends and use our diplomatic capacity to get the British Government to do what it is obliged to do under the Good Friday Agreement and other agreements. Even if our Government was not a co-equal guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement, it still has a responsibility to act on these matters. However, the Government is a co-equal guarantor and it must act accordingly.

I also ask the Minister to facilitate a meeting between the Taoiseach and the relatives in the justice support group and ask him whether he will commit to supporting a debate in the Dáil before the summer recess dedicated to the issue of collusion. As the Minister noted in his remarks, the Stormont House Agreement contains propositions for institutions to be put in place, including the historical investigations unit and other commissions, to deal with legacy issues. There is no reason the two governments cannot proceed to fully implement those proposals.

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