Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will speak to the point about testimony and the value of people's testimony. I agree with that point. That is why I have set out that with the records and the memorial centre, we are looking to create a facility where people can give their lived experience and can ensure that it is kept on the historical record. We are looking to initiate it with the people who gave testimony before the confidential committee but I believe it should be open to everyone who wishes, irrespective of whatever trauma they experienced. If they want it on the record, they should be able to do it. We are looking to provide for that with the records and memorial centre we are working to bring forward. In the context of those stories being visible and being part of an active history rather than just being on the dusty record of some tribunal, more can be done in making those testimonies visible and part of the history of what happened in these institutions.