Debate contribution: Reconciliation: IRA Condemnation

Debate contribution by Mrs Diane Dodds on 19 February 2024.

MLA: Mrs Diane Dodds
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 19 February 2024
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Reconciliation: IRA Condemnation
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4223194

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The general public are tired of platitudes, and they want to know, in the interests of reconciliation, that such atrocities can be condemned wholeheartedly. Let me try another one. Ian Sproule was killed by the IRA. Such was the ferocity with which the bullets hit his body that the IRA later phoned his family and told them to go out into the yard and look at the mess that they had left him in. In the interests of reconciliation, will the First Minister condemn such actions? Actually, will she go further? Given the allegations of collusion with the gardai in relation to the death of Ian Sproule, will the First Minister use her influence to call for an inquiry into such collusion?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 6/22-27.

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