IRA abuse allegations and disclosures
Senator O’Brien calls on Sinn Féin to provide authorities with information about people allegedly dealt with by IRA community tribunals, particularly suspected sex offenders.
I apologise, but this is important. I am calling on Sinn Féin - because I am sure it has not done it - to clarify whether An Garda Síochána and the PSNI are aware of the names of all the people that the IRA interrogated and sent away from their communities, including paedophiles and sex offenders. There could be people living in communities in Dublin, Cork, Monaghan, Belfast and Armagh who are sex offenders or who abused children but were dealt with outside the judicial systems of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and are not on any registered sex offenders list. That is a crucial point which we need to deal with. I ask that the point be raised with the Ministers for Justice and Equality and Children and Youth Affairs in order that the Government would look for Sinn Féin to furnish the list of people with which it dealt, as well as the people with whom it did not deal. We are aware of these people through the brave statements made earlier this week.
Comment on this
This is something that needs to be dealt with as a matter of urgency and I call on Sinn Féin to give its commitment that it will provide the list of people it dealt with or against whom accusations were made to the proper authorities both in the North of Ireland and in the Republic.