Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

British state forces have murdered hundreds of people in Ireland, North and South. In the majority of cases, those murders were covered up by the British state. Hundreds of families have spent decades trying to get to truth and justice in that regard. The British legacy Act has now stated that cannot happen. It looks to cover up even more of those murders.

We have only one chance to stop the monstrosity of the legacy Act, and that is for the Irish Government to bring a case to the European Court of Human Rights. There is an urgency here and the Government has stalled. A court case must be taken before 18 January. There are only 40 days left and at least 14 to 20 of those days will be taken up in Christmas holidays. Will the Government state it will stand by those who have lost loved ones through British state murders and that the Irish Government will bring a case to the European Court of Human Rights to stop the legacy Act?

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