Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Northern Ireland - Time to Deal with the Past: Amnesty International
10:55 am
Mr. Mark Durkan:
I note that Mr. Patrick Corrigan referred to the commitments and indications from both Governments and that he referred, in particular, to the Secretary of State. Does he have any concern that the Secretary of State seemed to only be particular about the fact that the Haass proposals might entail legislation in Westminster on devolving responsibility for parades and that she conspicuously avoided any indication that there might need to be legislation in respect of provisions to provide for qualified-purpose immunity and other things for the arrangements set up under the Haass proposals? It is not only legislative authorisations that are needed or sufficient to help to make the Haass proposals work on the rounded basis to which Mr. Corrigan referred.
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