Claire Hanna raises Sean Brown inquiry and ICRIR on January 15

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00:00Laureate Seamus Heaney described Sean Brown as a man of goodwill and integrity

00:04who represented something better than we've grown used to. We meet the day

00:09before his family are forced back to court and we meet in the week of the

00:13anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre where the sole survivor brave Alan Black

00:17is waiting for a long overdue Ombudsman report. Those two incidents were among

00:22the most nakedly sectarian in a squalid conflict but decades on those who

00:28created victims in and out of uniform are still driving the process and not

00:32those victims who have lived with the consequences for decades. Will the

00:37Minister commit to ensuring that his forthcoming proposals which I know he is

00:41working intensively on remove the NIO veto under the guise of national

00:46security? Will he commit to root and branch reform of the ICRIR? Will he

00:52commit to exposing collusive behavior and will he hold to the standards that

00:57were agreed by all parties and both governments at Stormont House?

01:01Well I say to my Honourable Friend I've bet both the Brown family and Alan Black the sole

01:06survivor of the Kingsmill massacre and the trauma they've been through is very

01:11hard for anyone else to appreciate. We look forward, all of us, to the Ombudsman

01:16report on the Kingsmill massacre being published. I want to see a full

01:20investigation into the murder of Sean Brown but there is an appeal on wider

01:24matters and I can't comment further and I am committed to fundamental reform of

01:28the Independent Commission.