Bid for fresh Summerland inquest not yet received
The Justice for Summerland Group, made up of survivors and relatives of victims, said last May that it would make a formal bid to overturn the original misadventure verdicts.
Alfred Cannan said the Attorney General had not received a formal application.
But campaign group, which appointed Belfast-based human rights law firm Phoenix Law to act for the families last year, said taking legal action over the issues was still its intention.
Darragh Mackin from the legal firm last year represented many families of 48 young people killed in the Stardust fire in Dublin in 1981, who successfully fought for their own fresh inquest.
Cannan told the House of Keys the Attorney General (AG) had received a letter on 20 May from the firm that said it intended to make an application for a fresh inquest in the coming weeks.
However the AG had confirmed he had not received an application, but would "give his full consideration to such a request at the time should one be received", Cannan said.
Joney Faragher MHK questioned whether Cannan acknowledged that a fresh inquest could provide "long overdue justice and closure for the families affected".
He said government had paid "full respects" to those who lost their lives along with those who dealt with the tragedy and had apologised.
But he said it was "not for me to make judgement on what happened at Summerland" and it would be for the AG to consider whether an inquest was reopened.
About 3,000 people were at the Summerland entertainment complex on the evening 2 August 1973, which at the time was one of the biggest indoor leisure complexes in Europe, when a blaze thought to have been started by three boys from Liverpool smoking broke out.
A public inquiry held in the aftermath of the tragedy found there were "no villains", only human beings who made mistakes.
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