there are a lot of things that get me angry in this job and this has got me more Angry than anything I have ever had to deal with because unlike some people in this house the people sitting on these benches have had to deal with and get to know and work with uh the victims of our terrible past for decades and I am frankly embarrassed today I don't know what I'm going to say to them when I speak to them after this debate because as a whole as a body politic we have failed them we have a peace process we have peace lots of us have been able to move on but we have left a very significant cohort of people behind our Robin stock rubber stamping that today and some people will walk through these lobbies coldly tonight without having the names of the victims ringing in their heads I have the names going around my head right now I put many of them on the public record court on the in this chamber over the passage of this bill I am deeply ashamed deeply ashamed that we are doing this today there's a pretense in the proposal for this bill that somehow the British government uh were not an actor at all in the conflict in Northern Ireland that is patently on true the common end to talk to the local political parties in Northern Ireland just squabbling they can't come up with any answers they can't deal with this problem patently on true we came up with the answer it was storm and house the reason it wasn't delivered was because of the British government dragging their feet and then changing their policy after new decade new approach that is a fact um I I really hope know that the Irish government listened to the calls for some of us to take this government to court in Strasbourg at the European uh Court of Human Rights because this is an affront to Human Rights it's an affronto article too every single expert I've spoken to agrees with me or not every single victim agrees with me on that as well the secretary of state was to use the phrase effective information recovery process a lot of times effective information recovery process I can take you to families today who's uh who who whose children were shot in the troubles 14 and 15 years old and their cases have been closed by this government until 2064 and 65. these are the people telling us they want an effective uh information recovery process they're denying victims an effective information recovery that is what they're doing so it tells me that this is based on a light this is an attempt by this government and dark Forces with the security apparatus of this government to close down access to truth and Justice and we all understand that Justice is going to be hard to get from many families but most of those families haven't even had any truth the the process of Investigation gets some truth I can take you to loads of families today who never even once met a police officer even though a loved one was murdered does anybody here believe that the IRA are going to come forward and tell us who bombed a particular Pub or who shot a particular person it is utter nonsense this is an attempt to close down access to the truth it is an affront to democracy immunity it's impunity you have given people a license to murder people on the streets of Derry and Belfast and Yuri and right across Northern and also on the Streets of London I do not understand how any politician can stand and look at the faces of crying victims and tell them this is the right thing to do I'm ashamed that this is happening today but let me say one thing to end I know these people who've had a struggle for decade after decade after decade this will not be the end for them and we will be with them and support right till the end