Madam, - There is something radically wrong with the State and Government when a group representing people killed and injured in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings is forced to bring its case to the European Court of Human Rights.
For about three months, I worked on the Oireachtas Committee on the Barron Report and listened to the families of the victims killed in the bombings. They taught us all a lesson in courage, humility and human dignity. However, these families have been ignored for too long.
There are significant internal issues within this State which must be investigated and the issue of collusion must now be fully addressed. This Government must establish nothing less than a public tribunal of inquiry into those grave matters. There could be an interim report in six months and the final report completed in one year.
Most of the serious groundwork has been done. Time is running out and these families need our support.
I urge the Government to act now. - Yours, etc.,
FINIAN McGRATH, TD, (Independent), Dáil Eireann, Dublin 2.