Debate contribution: Victims’ Groups: Payments

Debate contribution by Miss Michelle McIlveen on 19 January 2026.

MLA: Miss Michelle McIlveen
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 19 January 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Victims’ Groups: Payments
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5322172

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On 5 January, we marked the 50th anniversary of the Kingsmills massacre and, just this weekend, the 34th anniversary of the Teebane massacre. Given the brutal loss of life and the trauma inflicted upon the victims and their families to this very day by IRA cowards, does the First Minister wish to retract her statement that there was no alternative to the murder of innocent workmen at the side of the road?

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 2926/22-27.

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