Professor Colin Harvey:

The commission submitted its proposals to the British Government in December 2008, approximately ten years ago. It has largely been rejected and is currently stalled. My personal take on it is that it, along with a range of other issues, is stalled because the British Government is pointing to a lack of political consensus in the North on this issue and on a range of other issues. I go back to my starting point in that it joins a long list of things that are blocked or stalled. That is why I started by saying it was a crisis.

I know people who work in human rights and people like me are sometimes accused of coming up with a list of problems. One of the things that is remarkable about the work that all the people here do is that they come up with solutions to these problems, but they need to be implemented.