Jim Walsh (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not accept that. The written request was to this committee. It is an international matter between two sovereign governments. We referred it to the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement so that it would not feel we had ignored its remit. Primarily it is a function of this committee. We referred it on the basis that we would meet jointly with that committee if that was its wish and if not that we would meet on it ourselves. I am looking for it to be on the agenda next week so that we do not have a debate like this under the minutes heading next week. It is more important than that. I ask that we have that issue on the agenda next week.