Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The British Government's amnesty legislation is about covering up what it did in Ireland. It is about the fact that the British Government was responsible for death squads that executed Irish people. There is a responsibility on us in here to highlight the issue. We need to be incredibly strong in regard to the fact that the amnesty legislation is just not going to cut it in terms of human rights and where right-thinking people are. We need to deal with the reports of the ombudsman, in particular the latest one. We also need to deal with some of the outstanding issues in this State. I refer to the Glenanne gang killing two people in Dundalk in the Kay's Tavern bombing, and the death of Seamus Ludlow and the requirement on the State to carry out an inquiry into how that was handled. We need to deal with the issue of collusion, which was about the British Government feeling it had the right and ability to carry out executions of nationalists in Ireland.

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