Ms Tanya Ward:

I will make a final comment. I welcome what Mr. Durkan said. It is hugely encouraging because the joint committee has a fundamental role to ensure that the European Convention on Human Rights, ECHR, is not down played in the context of Brexit. We are surprised that more attention has not been brought to it because it is so fundamental. It is a key aspect of the Good Friday Agreement. If we pull that thread, what other thread do we pull?

I used to work for the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and my colleagues, who would have campaigned around the Good Friday Agreement, would say that those human rights aspects, in particular the European Convention on Human Rights, were very important to give people faith that the peace process was durable and would work - "durable" was the word they used. People could lose faith in the peace process if we deviate in any way from the ECHR.

Another issue of concern is that we could have political instability with Brexit. We do not know the implications of it. That instability could happen in Northern Ireland, and it is precisely at that-----