Ms Claire Hackett:

I thank the Chair. Relatives for Justice strongly believes that everyone harmed by the conflict needs to have justice and reparation. In fact, all our work has been about designing a process for that. I will insert this one bit. One of the things that I and other people in Relatives for Justice have been leading the way on is the notion of incorporating a gender lens for dealing with the legacy of the conflict. One of the reasons we know that is needed is it looks at multiple harms people have endured from all actors. We want any processes to look at all of those harms. The Cathaoirleach outlined the case of Columba McVeigh very eloquently, not just his killing and death, but his disappearance and what his family have had to endure. That is replicated in so many ways, not just in one harm that is inflicted on a family but many different kinds of harm. Sometimes, in one family, there will be someone who has been killed by the British army and then someone who has been harmed by the IRA or other groups.

These multiple harms happen in one family and we want a process that looks at the harms of everyone involved. We have always been very clear about this.