Michael Kingston wrote to Taoiseach Micheál Martin and a number of Cork TDs to say the Government should have offered some 'empathetic words' in the Dáil this week.
Michael's father Tim was one of 50 people killed when the Betelgeuse tanker exploded in Bantry Bay in January 1979.
In a letter to the Taoiseach he told Micheal Martin that it is now up to him to take the opportunity to offer a state apology.
