Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 November 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Assembly and Executive Reform (Assembly Opposition) Bill: Briefing
10:15 am
Mr. Paul Maskey:
With regard to A Fresh Start and Mr. McCallister's proposed legislation, A Fresh Start gives us choice so that if people want to go into opposition, it will be possible for them to do so. Mr. McCallister's legislation would not give us choice because if a certain threshold is not reached people will not be allowed in. Given our past histories and from where we have all come, it is about building up trust so that one community does not damn the other. This is very important. We must learn from the past and make sure it never happens again. Is choice not a good thing with regard to A Fresh Start?
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