Frances Black (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Thompson. That is very good to hear. We all know the role the US played in the Good Friday Agreement. The work being done by the witnesses in the US is vital.

I want to come back to the issue of intergenerational trauma. The witnesses deal on a daily basis with the impact of what has happened in the North. We know it plays a large role in families with ongoing trauma. I do not know whether there is a way to describe it. It is very difficult to describe intergenerational trauma but the impact is horrific. It also impacts culturally, politically and economically in all sorts of ways. Families and communities have great emotional burdens to contend with. Will the witnesses speak about how their work, and the legacy Act's attempt to curtail it, intersects with intergenerational trauma? That is very important.