Mary White (Fianna Fail)

I support Judge Cory's recommendation that the inquiry be set up and I know that Judge Smithwick will do a good job. As a result of my constant involvement in the North since 1994, the scales have fallen from my eyes regarding collusion. I knew Rosemary Nelson and could not believe the type of collusion-related offences committed by the British forces, offences that Irish State institutions have never been guilty of.

I admire Tony Blair in many ways but he is an expert at manipulation. He brought the British people into a war that most of them do not support. We are constantly being bombarded with evidence regarding what was hidden from the British Parliament and the British people. On his next visit to Downing Street, out of respect to my colleague Senator Jim Walsh, the Minister should demand a public inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. The death toll from these bombings represented the largest number of people murdered in one day on this island. I remember being shocked at Mr. Justice Barron's testimony regarding the bombings on the first day of his inquiry. Regarding the issue of the cases of the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six, I never knew——