John Crown (Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is a far-reaching change in policy.

Let me add parenthetically, not apropos of this, that as someone who has been a frequent trenchant critic of the role the Provisional IRA and its Sinn Féin wing had in propagating the Northern Ireland conflict for 30-odd years beyond the Sunningdale Agreement because they thought they could be dumb enough to bomb the majority living in Northern Ireland into its point of view, I join the calls for a public inquiry into the depth of collusion in the death of Mr. Pat Finucane. For someone who has been an opponent of that terrorist position, it is important we know how dirty were the hands of those who in many cases we thought were less culpable in the entire problem.