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Dáil
‹ An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

Operation Greenwich report

Summary

Deputy Mac Lochlainn and Deputy Tóibín raise the Police Ombudsman's report on Operation Greenwich and seek a debate on its findings, including alleged collusion and the role of Person K. The Taoiseach says the report is damning, supports debate in principle, but says this week’s agenda cannot be changed.

Last Friday, the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland published a damning report relating to Operation Greenwich, which investigated 19 murders between 1989 and 1992. I urge the Taoiseach to look in particular at the issue relating to Person K, who was involved in 16 murders and eight attempted murders. This person was the organiser of the Castlerock and Greysteel massacres. The individual in question has never been convicted of any crime. Despite repeatedly being arrested, charges have never been pressed. Person K is a mass murderer, licensed to kill.

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Catherine Connolly An Leas-Cheann Comhairle Independent

We are discussing the Order of Business.

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It is critical that we debate the damning findings of the report in question. The challenge for this House lies in holding the British Government to account. I ask that such a debate and statements take place tomorrow.

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Some 40,000 people in this State have had fines brought against them for breaching Covid-19 regulations. People have gone to jail. Many have been forced to bury their loved ones in isolation over this period. The regulations the Government created have been enforced everywhere across the country except, it seems, among the political class itself. We have this really strange situation where the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, is refusing to come clean regarding what happened within his Department. The whole of the Government is looking at what is happening with Boris Johnson in England-----

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Catherine Connolly An Leas-Cheann Comhairle Independent

The debate is in regard to the arrangements-----

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-----yet we have not had the Minister come before the Dáil to answer questions.

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Catherine Connolly An Leas-Cheann Comhairle Independent

We are discussing the arrangements for business.

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Will the Minister for Foreign Affairs come before the Dáil to answer questions with regard to an event that broke regulations within his Department during the past 18 months?

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Catherine Connolly An Leas-Cheann Comhairle Independent

Contributions should be in respect of the arrangements for this week.

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I am looking for time to be made available.

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