I propose to take Questions Nos. 93, 94 and 103 together.
Following the announcement of the Government's decision to establish an inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, officials from my Department and the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, which would have a role in facilitating implementation of the decision we arrived at, met representatives of the group Justice for the Forgotten on 9 October and again on 14 October. At the 14 October meeting, the representatives for the group asked that a period of four weeks be allowed where no action would be taken to set the process for establishing the inquiry in train, to allow the group to make a further submission on the nature of the inquiry to be established and the legal-technical issues involved. The Government considered this request subsequently and agreed to it. A submission is awaited from the group.
The Irish Government called for a public inquiry into Bloody Sunday after the publication of a very detailed assessment of the new material in relation to Bloody Sunday and the Widgery Tribunal. In the Pat Finucane case, British Irish Rights Watch had prepared a very detailed submission on that case. In the cases of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings and Seamus Ludlow, no such detailed assessments have been made.
