Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I, too, warmly welcome the restoration of the assembly, Executive and North–South Ministerial Council. As we all know, all legacy legislation should be victim centred. Unfortunately, the recent British Act is totally perpetrator centred. I raised on many occasions in this House the terrible bombing of Belturbet in December 1972 that resulted in the deaths of Geraldine O'Reilly and Patrick Stanley. Next May marks the 50th anniversary of the horrific bombings in Monaghan and Dublin. The Taoiseach will recall that, in 2008, 2011 and 2016, this House unanimously passed resolutions calling on the British Government to give access to all papers and files pertaining to the Dublin–Monaghan bombings to an independent eminent legal person. My understanding is that the British Government's response to the unanimous request of an independent sovereign parliament, a neighbouring sovereign parliament, has been zilch. Will the Taoiseach take up again with the British Prime Minister, well in advance of May, the necessity for the British Government to co-operate in the necessary investigations to get to the truth of who carried out all these horrendous crimes?

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