Mr. Brian Gormally:

There is a great deal to get through but I will try to be brief. We must look at what the Good Friday Agreement was meant to do when considering the citizenship issue. Generally, human rights organisations do not get involved in citizenship because human rights are human rights irrespective of citizenship. In this case, however, the Good Friday Agreement was about creating a geographical and political space that could be shared by people with different national identities and allegiances. That was at least one of the fundamental principles under the agreement. As part of that, full equality between people's choice of citizenship must be maintained. As we said earlier, the British Government unilaterally deprives British citizens born in the North of their right to be EU citizens. We suggested treating everybody born in the North as EU citizens on the basis of a reciprocal arrangement that would allow free movement into the North and would make this island a unit from that point of view. That has not been taken up.

As to what the rights of Irish citizens as EU citizens are, as Mr. Les Allamby has said that is still not clear but-----