Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 April 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Issues Facing Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners: Discussion
2:00 pm
Mr. Kevin Mulgrew:
As I said initially, the funding criteria of PEACE IV mentions all these target groups and legacy issues impacting target groups but nothing within the application process lends itself to the actions that would deal with those issues. That is being blunt about it. The Democratic Unionist Party got into the document when it went to Europe and took it apart. It became a Catholic-Protestant issue. That is being straight on it. We met the sub group about it, we met the Commission in Brussels, we met loads of people and we were assured that it would not happen. Unfortunately, it did. At this stage, there is no service provision on that issue.
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