Pat O'Neill (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to be associated with remarks on the McAleese report which, of all things, will be an indictment of the history of this nation. When people read the McAleese report in 100 years time, they will say there were problems in regard to the Church and the State. I hope this report gives some comfort to the survivors. Whether it involved one person or 6 million people, this will go down in the same way as the way Negroes were treated and enslaved and the way the Holocaust developed and the Jews were persecuted. This was the persecution of people who were in a vulnerable state in our country. I would welcome a debate on the matter and I will leave it up to the Leader as to when we have it. The report runs to 1,000 pages and it will take us a while to read through it and make sure we take it all in.

I refer to a statement made last week in the other House by the Sinn Féin deputy leader that there is a difference between the murder of a PSNI or RUC man and a garda. Is this Sinn Féin policy?