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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: United Kingdom Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023: Discussion (7 Dec 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...justice, but justice must be seen to be done on all sides. Everybody is entitled to that, and I support absolutely what Mr. Ó Muirigh is saying here today. I appeal to anyone, particularly those in the IRA or former republicans, who know about where Columba McVeigh was brought or who can identify that location. We need more information because we are talking about acres, miles, of...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...is absolutely true, it is that the Good Friday Agreement has worked and the violence has ended. Notwithstanding the fact that more than 3,500 people died as a direct result of violence by the IRA, Protestant paramilitaries, the British army, the RUC and others, peace is in our land, North and South. This means that the focus of the legislation that was used during those troubling years...

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...in this area. Members of the Opposition rightly outlined things the Irish Government has to do, but there are also things that Sinn Féin has to do, along with people who were previously in the IRA. When I visit WAVE Trauma Centre in Belfast and meet the families of those disappeared by the IRA, I feel very disappointed that the families of people like Columba McVeigh, Joe...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...the murder of Veronica Guerin; Pearse McAuley, Jeremiah Sheehy, Michael O'Neill and Kevin Walsh for the murder of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe; Michael McKevitt for directing terrorism as a leader of the Real IRA; and John Dundon for the murder of Shane Geoghegan and so on. The list goes on and on. Jonathan Dowdall was convicted not once but twice by the Special Criminal Court. The...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...? We do not know, but it seems to me it just printed Jonathan Dowdall's election posters and Deputy McDonald, I think, joined him on the canvas trail. On Monday, the judge called Mr. Dowdall "a ruthless, base, callous criminal". This is a man who is a suspected IRA member and associate of Garda killer Pearse McAuley. Was Jonathan Dowdall a member of a terrorist organisation while he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. John Bruton (8 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...look at a future together, but if we do not get that consensus, it will not happen. Also, if we force it on people, we will only end up with a significant minority who will have an equivalent of an IRA campaign down here in 15 or 20 years' time, and it will not work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill and the UK Government's Plans around the Human Rights Act: Amnesty International UK (10 Nov 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is a very important clarification because, as a member of committee, I have met with people whose families were murdered by the IRA or other paramilitary organisations. The same evil has been perpetrated in all communities. I appreciate and fully support what you are saying. It is important that absolutely nobody can be let off the hook. For the first time in 15 years, a British...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee
Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Lord Alderdice (6 Oct 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...to show the good faith we have in this regard, and we would put a lot more in. To me, that is the way you will get a new island - a new relationship that will not result in the equivalent of an IRA campaign on the extreme unionist side. If you force people into a united Ireland by a majority of one, or even a majority of 2,000 or 3,000, you are going to face generations of hostility and...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...are the only four whose graves are not known. I believe the families are absolutely entitled to the full support of everybody. I have acknowledged that Sinn Féin in the past and, indeed, the IRA did find 12 of the 16 bodies but I repeat that we need to get those other four. It is a very difficult time right now because Northern Ireland is in the process of preparing for an...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...Centre and the families of the disappeared, one feels, touches and understands the pain and hurt that is there on all sides. We met Maria Lynskey, whose uncle Joe Lynskey was disappeared by the IRA in August 1972 and whose body has never been recovered. We met Dympna Kerr and Oliver McVeigh and talked and listened to them. When we looked in their eyes we saw their pain and hurt because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee
Engagement with WAVE Trauma Centre (9 Dec 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: It seems the inference is that these people were murdered by the IRA. It has been said by Sinn Féin that, through its assistance, the remains of a significant number of people were recovered, of the 16 who were murdered. Does Sinn Féin have any view as to what should happen now? Is there more Sinn Féin can do, in terms of the IRA, to get this information? I accept it was a...

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 May 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...loss as they paid the supreme sacrifice for doing their duty as they saw fit to protect the public. Having listened to my colleague from Leitrim, I refer also to Garda Gary Sheehan, who was killed by an IRA gang some years ago while in full uniform defending the State and trying to protect a man who had been kidnapped. If there is wrongdoing in the Garda, it must be rooted out. All the...

Courts Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (14 Dec 2015)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...Criminal Court and agree that it should only be used in cases where there is a significant possibility that either witnesses or jury members will be intimidated. It must be said, however, that the IRA, with its campaign North and South of the Border, would not have been defeated without the Special Criminal Court because convictions would probably never have been attained in the normal...

Paris Terrorist Attack: Statements (17 Nov 2015)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...in our own country. I listened tonight to those who spoke from the opposition benches, including from Sinn Féin. I welcome Sinn Féin into this House. I welcome Deputy Gerry Adams into this House and I share a constituency with him. However, I can never forget the evil acts that Sinn Féin and the IRA carried out in our own country and in my own county. I am reminded of...

Topical Issue Debate: Water Supply Contamination (21 Jan 2015)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...The article states that up to 60,000 homes are served by water from this lake. The problem is that vile, carcinogenic substances, put in, as the article states, by former or present members of the IRA, are coming into the water. They are poisoning the environment. It has the potential to kill, in terms of the toxicity itself, and to pollute the water supply. We need to deal with it...

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...absolute fact. What we now want to know, what the Government must find out, and what the Department of Justice and Equality must be informed about is whether perpetrators were driven south by the IRA to the counties where Deputies Fitzpatrick, Nash, Kirk and I reside. That is our responsibility here. Will those concerned be held to account? Do we know who they are? Who are they...

Allegations Regarding Sexual Abuse by Members of the Provisional Republican Movement: Statements (12 Nov 2014)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...of the outstanding issues are finally resolved. Maíria Cahill was in the Visitors Gallery earlier. I did not meet her but I did meet the parents of Paul Quinn who was murdered by members of the IRA in 2007. Mr. Quinn's parents, Bríd and Stephen, are still grievously upset about the appallingly vicious way in which he was murdered. Every bone in Mr. Quinn's body was broken by...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)

Fergus O'Dowd: Libya with Colonel Gadaffi. The facts are that the IRA semtex explosives came from Colonel Gadaffi.

Commemorative Events (14 Mar 2012)

Fergus O'Dowd: .... The President has a very important place in our Constitution in regard to the Army. He - or she, as was the case last year - is present. As one who has a relative who fought in the Old IRA, I am very proud of this ceremony and I hope to be present on the day to commemorate all those people. As to the Deputy's reference to the British Army, the history of this country shows that this...