Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

There is no doubt the British Government has a lot of questions to answer, and I think most people believe it does not want to answer them because of the extent of British state collusion with the people who carried out the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and, indeed, other massacres carried out by the Glenanne gang.

The Irish Government, however, has very serious questions to answer as well. The investigations into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the greatest single atrocity in the Troubles, were closed down after ten weeks. What is the explanation for that? Where are the files relating to the decision to do that? As regards the Sackville Place bombings of 1972 and 1973, also carried out by the Glenanne gang, the investigation closed down after seven weeks. Among a series of questions I submitted to the Minister recently on foot of requests from survivors and families, I asked why the families, from 1993, when they put up a memorial to their loved ones in the Garden of Remembrance, were put under Garda surveillance and then kept under Garda surveillance for years. I asked where the files as to who ordered that are. Was it the Government? Was it the Garda? Where are the files in respect of the monitoring of the families of the victims of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings? In the answer I got from her, basically, she said that is an operational matter for the Garda. Is she serious? If the Government is serious about getting to the truth and getting justice for the families and victims of this awful atrocity, is it seriously suggesting that that is an acceptable answer to the question as to why the families of the victims were put under Garda surveillance when they started to campaign for truth and justice?

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