Member

It does not stop there, if you look at the history of all of this. Last week, my colleagues and I brought to people’s attention the fact that there were about 117 attempts by the United Kingdom Government to have terrorists extradited from the Republic but only eight successful extraditions over the whole period of the Troubles; in other words, people got off because the court said, “Oh, it was political”. Well, well, well—so, if it is political, you can go and murder a fellow Irishman or Irishwoman and it is fine. I do not understand why our Government get like a rabbit caught in the headlights and become paralysed whenever they get abuse from the Republic. They are hypocrites on this issue, and they should be rigorously pursued. If we want honesty about things, this is a good place to start.