Taoiseach Enda Kenny has told the Dáil that the information supplied by the British government on the Dublin-Monaghan bombings is all the relevant information that they intend to supply.
Mr Kenny said he did not have the authority to instruct them to supply any other files they hold and he told Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin that he would have been provided with similar information when he was Minister for Foreign Affairs and he did not object.
Mr Martin said the position was unacceptable and he asked the Taoiseach if he had expressed such sentiments to British Prime Minister David Cameron.
He suggested the refusal to release documents was fueling conspiracy theories about what had happened and that the Taoiseach's response was weak and accused him of washing his hands of the issue.
The Taoiseach also revealed that he did not raise the interest rate on the bilateral loan between Britain and Ireland in his discussions with Mr Cameron.
Mr Kenny said the loan was tied into the wider EU-IMF loan and that the whole package had been raised as an issue for discussion.
Mr Martin said he found it 'incredible' that the bilateral loan was not discussed.
Sinn Féin TD Gerry Adams has described the refusal of the British government to release all of the files in its possession on the Dublin Monaghan bombs as ‘wholly unacceptable’.
He also raised with the Taoiseach the withdrawal of funding from Justice for the Forgotten.
Socialist TD Joe Higgins suggested that Mr Cameron was keeping the interest rate at punitive levels for selfish reasons and was surprised that the Taoiseach had not raised the issue with him given that he had direct control over it.
Also in response to Deputy Higgins, the Taoiseach said he did not have the cost of the visits of Queen Elizabeth II and US President Barack Obama as yet.
