Seanad debates

Tuesday, 9 December 2003

Independent Monitoring Commission Bill 2003: Second Stage.

 

In the Schedule to the legislation, Article 4 refers to the dealings the commission will have concerning the threat from paramilitary groups. It has a massive task on hand. One notes that it must monitor attacks on the security forces, murders, sectarian attacks, etc. Sadly, they are still happening. Training, targeting and intelligence gathering is still happening to some degree. Punishment beatings and attacks are still happening on all sides of the political equation in Northern Ireland. We have to aspire to the time and the day when all of that will cease. The question I ask myself is how we best march in that direction.

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