
“It doesn’t matter that they’re dismissing the [Legacy] act, as they’re removing the very methods that families like ours are fighting to gain access to.
“The national security papers have pretty much all the answers to the questions we all desire.”
Several victims’ groups want the ICRIR to be scrapped and Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland Dame Siobhan Keegan warned, in her judgement in September, that public confidence in the body was at risk, due to the veto.
The government has said it will remain, but pledged to overhaul it.
Sir Declan Morgan, chief commissioner of the ICRIR, said it was “committed” to achieving the “unvarnished truth for all of the victims”.
“The first duty that we have is to ensure that information that the government might want to prevent, which is embarrassing, and existing from something that requires to be preserved for national security, that information is disclosed and if it is not disclosed to call it out,” he added.
Ms Hambleton, however, believes the repeal is an act of “window-dressing” that enables the government to continue to conceal key information.
“Whatever they decide to do, the doors will remain shut, locked and cemented if they decide to legislate.”
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