Geraldine Feeney (Fianna Fail)

I concur with and support other Senators' comments about the heartbreaking but excellent RTE coverage over recent days of the 25th anniversary of the Stardust tragedy. I agree with Senator O'Toole that there were many different aspects to the coverage. The one which got to me most, and broke my heart, involved the parents in four or five families, the bodies of whose loved ones could not be identified and remain unidentified. One poor couple spoke of having to visit four or five different graves because they do not know where their son or daughter is buried.

We are talking of children aged 16, 17 or 18. One does not have to be a parent to feel these parents' anguish, loss and terrible heartbreak. Will the Leader write to the relevant Minister, perhaps the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, and ask him to consider the request by those four or five families to have the bodies exhumed? There was no DNA testing 25 years ago. However, now that we are living in an age when DNA testing is common practice, those four or five families could be given final closure by having headstones for the graves. They have no headstones, only numbers. It would be important to have the headstones.