Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. This is a sensitive matter. Perhaps we can try to deal with it in the way he has mentioned, that is, through correspondence with the Ceann Comhairle and other engagements. I acknowledge that things happened during the Civil War that should not have happened. Atrocities were committed on the side of the National Army and the Government and on the side of the Irregulars and those who opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Indeed, many atrocities have been committed more recently than that by people who decided to use violence for political ends. We need to respond to these things in the round.

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