Debate contribution: Victims’ Payments Board: Update
Debate contribution by Mr Jonathan Buckley on .
- MLA
- Mr Jonathan Buckley
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 9 September 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Victims’ Payments Board: Update
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4511388
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The Troubles permanent disablement payment scheme continues to be a vital lifeline for many people who were caught up in the absolute barbarity of the Northern Ireland Troubles. That barbarity was brought into sharp focus recently by the dig for Captain Robert Nairac in a bog in County Louth. Does the deputy First Minister agree that it is vital that anybody who holds information on not only Captain Nairac's remains but those of others of the disappeared, such as Columba McVeigh and Joe Lynskey, come forward to the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) and allow those families to give their loved ones the Christian burials that they deserve?
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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 732/22-27.
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