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

I add my voice to what Deputy Conway-Walsh has said. We are hardly shocked that the Council of Europe has serious concern over the legacy Bill that has been proposed by the British Government. I have often said that the British Government introduced this Bill in order that it will not have to deal with the reality of what it did in the North and the dirty war it prosecuted in Ireland, collusion and all that went with it. The Bill is also about what Britain has been involved in since and what it may be involved in into the future. It is about protecting its military, those with whom it collaborates and what its intelligence agencies have always done. We need to ensure an Irish Government will stand up for Irish citizens. That is absolutely necessary. It is about what we need to do in the future beyond words.

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