Dáil debates

Thursday, 15 June 2023

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions

Official Engagements

9:30 am

Photo of Micheál MartinMicheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do, and we have consistently raised the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and the need for full disclosure and release of documents pertaining to that atrocity.

I too was at the remembrance ceremony and commemoration. I pay tribute to Justice for the Forgotten for the consistent manner in which it has commemorated those who lost their lives. Its representatives remember those people but also raise the issue of justice. I have met many victims' groups since I became Minister for Foreign Affairs. As Taoiseach, I also met many victims' groups. There is a collective need and obligation on everybody who has information to come forward and to bring closure, if that is possible, to the families of those who have lost their lives and have been murdered, whether by State forces or paramilitary groups. I respectfully say that Sinn Féin also has a role to play in this regard by meeting with victims' groups, particularly in respect of those who were murdered by the Provisional IRA. Better engagement on legacy on that front needs to happen across the board. I have met victims groups who cannot get meetings or information about what happened. That is my view on the broader picture. We must be victim-centred. We are victim-centred and our entire approach in all of this is through the prism of the victims and their families.

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