209 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his views regarding the use of the EU-US mutual legal assistance treaty by the PSNI to subpoena, through the US Department of Justice, tape recordings of interviews given in confidence to researchers by republican and loyalist paramilitaries who participated in the armed conflict in the North, noting that the decommissioning papers are lodged in the same archive at Boston College; and if he will make representations to the US Government requesting that these tapes should not be released in the interests of guaranteeing confidentiality to participants in important historical research, protecting the free flow of information and ensuring the safety of the researchers. [10334/12]

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209 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his views regarding the use of the EU-US mutual legal assistance treaty by the PSNI to subpoena, through the US Department of Justice, tape recordings of interviews given in confidence to researchers by republican and loyalist paramilitaries who participated in the armed conflict in the North, noting that the decommissioning papers are lodged in the same archive at Boston College; and if he will make representations to the US Government requesting that these tapes should not be released in the interests of guaranteeing confidentiality to participants in important historical research, protecting the free flow of information and ensuring the safety of the researchers. [10334/12]

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