Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This refers to the work in which another committee is engaged. While this committee has some common ground with that committee it does not have the right to dictate to that committee the matters it should discuss or we should discuss. With due respect to the speakers, I suggest that we wait to see what the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement has to say and what its intention is in this matter. It would be entirely without precedent to overreach the work of another committee, regardless of whether we have common ground. That is a standing practice in the House.