Seanad debates

Thursday, 5 April 2007

12:00 pm

Don Lydon (Fianna Fail)

I congratulate Ms Nancy Pelosi on visiting President Assad of Syria. Her actions might open up a new era of rapprochement between Washington and Damascus. I had the privilege of meeting President Assad in January and he assured me that on each occasion he came close to making peace deals with Israel or certain other countries, his efforts were stymied by Washington. With the Democrats holding a majority in the US Congress, perhaps things may change somewhat.

I support Senator Jim Walsh's request for a debate on the Final Report on the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Bombing of Kay's Tavern, Dundalk, which was issued by the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights. It may be, as Senator Maurice Hayes stated, that the truth relating to the Dublin-Monaghan bombings is unobtainable. However, I am of the view that, in view of the number of people involved, there must be some way to uncover the truth. One would want to be an idiot to believe that all the files relating to this mass murder that were held in the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and by the Garda Síochána either disappeared or were destroyed. I do not believe that what happened in this instance was an accident. Further investigation is required until the truth is finally revealed.

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