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Gerry Adams is in line for a bumper payout as part of an estimated ￡4billion bill to deal with Northern Ireland’s troubled past.
The former Sinn Féin president – and many others interned without trial in the 1970s – could seek compensation after Labour repealed parts of the Tory party’s Legacy Act.
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The Policy Exchange think tank has put the cost of inquiries, court cases, inquests and payouts so far at between ￡840million and ￡2.7billion.
They also estimated a further ￡1.3billion will be incurred in the future, and warned the costs could be “considerably higher” if the current Labour Government “continues to embrace a maximalist approach to legalism”.
The think tank criticised the Government’s actions last month.
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer responded to that report last month, saying he is looking at “every conceivable way” to stop the former Troubles internees from seeking compensation.
A public inquiry is currently hearing whether the security forces could have prevented the Real IRA bomb attack Omagh in 1998, while another inquiry, which had been previously committed to, is set to get under way into the killing of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.
In a foreword to the Policy Exchange paper, former Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt claimed the approach of the Government to the legacy of Northern Ireland’s past “appears at times to be being dictated by a maximalist approach to legalism, without regard to the underlying benefits or costs”.
He claimed this approach is “wrong, not least when short-term penny pinching has lost the UK a ￡450 million vaccine manufacturing plant investment from AstraZeneca”.
“When every line of additional departmental spending must run the Treasury gauntlet, is it right that there should be no such checks on the total cost of inquiries whether concerning Northern Ireland or indeed anywhere else?” he said.
“If the additional sums being committed by this Government to legacy matters were genuinely helping to bring about peace and reconciliation, the country would pay them cheerfully.
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“But there is scant evidence that this is the case; indeed, scant evidence that such factors are even being considered. Rather, the approach to legacy appears at times to be being dictated by a maximalist approach to legalism, without regard to the underlying benefits or costs.”
Policy Exchange senior fellow Roger Bootle said the Government is “taking a series of decisions that stand to commence lengthy inquiries and to increase its liability to civil suits, all with little regard to costs”.
The Policy Exchange said the costs they calculated include funding the public inquiry into Bloody Sunday, legal costs, the Victims’ Payment Scheme as well as ongoing costs in organisations including the Northern Ireland Office and the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
A UK Government spokesperson said: “We do not recognise the basis of the figures for any future costs in this report, which are entirely speculative.
“This Government is committed to addressing the suffering of victims and survivors of the Troubles in a way that is human rights compliant and proportionate. The previous Government set aside ￡250m over five years for the independent Commission and other legacy mechanisms and this Government remains committed to that figure.
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"The last Government’s Legacy Act has been found to be unlawful, so whoever was in Government would have had to make changes to it. This includes the immunity scheme, which would have enabled terrorists who committed the most appalling crimes to get away with them.
“In respect of any potential compensation claims relating to historic Interim Custody Orders, we are examining all conceivable options to address this issue lawfully.”