Mr. Brian Gormally:

We are a Northern Ireland based organisation. While we have been talking to Ruairí de Búrca, among others, in terms of the development of the work we have been doing, we have not tried to prescribe for the South. Obviously, UK legislation cannot prescribe what the Irish State does. However, it is worth looking at closely as to whether the existing security co-operation legislation and arrangements will be sufficient to involve the fullest backwards and forwards co-operation and disclosure of documents and so on. It is not an issue on which I can pronounce but it does need to be examined.

With regard to Deputy Tuffy’s question on sexual violence caused by the conflict, there is anecdotal evidence of that. Professor Monica McWilliams, who used to head the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, did work several decades ago on sexual violence in the North, including conflicted-related. She is actually at the beginning of a new major study looking back at this. Rights Watch (UK), which used to be called British Irish Rights Watch, under its director Yasmine Ahmed, is starting a project looking at conflict-related sexual violence.