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

The programme for Government made commitments on legacy issues, specifically the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. I have been asked by those campaigning, including families, victims and so on, to raise what they believe is the outrageous failure of the Government and Garda to release the files relating to the Dublin-Monaghan bombings to Operation Newham, that is, the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland's investigation into those bombings and the collusion of the loyalist killers with British intelligence and what the Garda knew about all of this. It is inexplicable that those files are not being released.

Campaigners now have to take the Minister and Garda to court in order to get the files on the single biggest atrocity that took place during the Troubles released. What is the State hiding? Why is the State not co-operating to the nth degree with the families and victims of those who were massacred in this atrocity? Why do they have to take the State to court in order to get the files released regarding what the Garda knew about the bombings and collusion? Could somebody please explain this? Can somebody do what the campaigners are asking? It is absolutely incredible.

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