Ulster Unionist Party leader Jon Burrows raised concerns in the Northern Ireland Assembly about explosives from a factory in Co Meath that supplied a substantial proportion of high explosives used by the IRA.

Burrows noted that archives and Hansard records indicate the Irish Industrial Explosives Facility in Enfield provided gelignite recovered by security forces in 1973, 1974, and 1982.

He stated that over two decades, more than 10,000 explosive devices were deployed across Northern Ireland and Great Britain, primarily by the Provisional IRA.

These devices destroyed infrastructure and cost billions, according to Burrows.

He pointed out that evidence of losses, thefts, or diversions from the factory was presented multiple times to Westminster and the Oireachtas, but no action followed.

Burrows contrasted this with investigations into UK collusion claims and questioned the lack of any Irish government inquiry into the matter.

He called on the Northern Ireland government to determine why explosives left the factory without checks.