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

I will absolutely do that. I agree with the Deputy that this has taken far too long. We recently had the Seán Brown case, for example, which I have raised with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. I hope that with the new British government we will be able to revisit the legacy Act because the Operation Kenova report points in the right direction. It is a hugely significant report. It underlines the need for a comprehensive, collective and victim-centred approach to legacy issues and places a strong emphasis on the importance of the European Convention on Human Rights as a safeguard of the Good Friday Agreement. It lays bare also the futility, the immorality and the sordid nature of the Provisional IRA campaign and the failure of republican leadership to acknowledge and apologise for those activities and the intimidation of families. Legacy is multi-sided, and there has been a huge failure on the part of Sinn Féin and others to deal with that aspect of the legacy in respect of Enniskillen and so on. It is all laid bare in Kenova. I look forward to Operation Denton. I hope it will create an opportunity to really move on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings case. I have met with Sir Iain Livingstone. Given the frankness of the Operation Kenova report - he did not pull his punches in any direction, and it was fair and upfront and dealt with legacy across the board - I would like to think the Operation Denton report might do likewise. It could give us a basis with a new British government to move forward on the Dublin and Monaghan bombings as regards inquiries.

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