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Collusion Allegations

Volume 455: debated on Tuesday 9 January 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment he has made of allegations of collusion between the RUC and Loyalist paramilitaries in bombings at (a) Dundalk in 1975 and (b) Castleblayney in 1976. (110208)

The Government have consistently made clear that they take any allegations of collusion very seriously, is committed to seeing that the truth emerges in all cases, that wrongdoers are punished and that we fully understand the Irish Government’s position on this. It is the Government’s position that criminal investigations led by the police generally represent the best way of achieving this.