Tony Gregory
Ceist:95 Mr. Gregory asked the Taoiseach if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 9 November 1999, he will confirm that he received an assessment of a case (details supplied) from the British Irish Rights Watch. [24521/99]
Written Answers. - Dublin and Monaghan Bombings.
I received a report prepared by British Irish Rights Watch on the Seamus Ludlow case at a meeting I had with the relatives for justice group in March.
In my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 94 on 9 November, I referred to the Government's very detailed assessment of the material relating to Bloody Sunday and the very detailed submission prepared by British Irish Rights Watch into the murder of Pat Finucane.
While the report of British Irish Rights Watch on the Seamus Ludlow case is a very useful docu ment in putting forward the case for further investigation, it is qualitatively different from the Bloody Sunday and Pat Finucane assessments which were very detailed, painstakingly researched and based on a considerable body of information, both in the public domain and provided by confidential sources. It was on the basis of these very detailed reports that the Government called for public inquiries in these cases.