Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independents 4 Change) | Oireachtas source

On behalf of the Independent Group, I thank staff across all the grades and work areas for their help and support and their generosity of spirit over the past Dáil term.

My question relates to the survivors and families of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. I met with representatives of the families recently and I presume the situation has not changed. I was informed that despite promising he would meet the families, the Tánaiste has not yet met them. They met civil servants but they have not met the Tánaiste directly, which they were under the impression would happen.

These families have been through years of stonewalling, surveillance and hurt. There is a decades long history of mishandling and neglect from the Garda and the State. They have been waiting decades for the release of key case files. The least they deserve is for promises made to them to be kept. Will the Tánaiste confirm that he will meet with the families and update them today in the House on when the files on Operation Newham will be released?

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