Professor Colin Harvey:

I echo the comments. If one thinks about it very simply, we are now 21 years on from the Good Friday Agreement and we are having this conversation, so there is a particular responsibility on the Irish Government to press this. We are in a multiplicity of negotiations at the moment, in a variety of contexts. Ms DeSouza has an enormous amount of support. The Good Friday Agreement, as we have seen this week in relation to the US and the European Union, is gaining ever more support around the world, so the Irish Government has to work very hard to make sure that is implemented. Ultimately, governmentally lessons have to be learned, so if there are negotiations - This was very much to the fore in the negotiations around the withdrawal agreement and the protocol - people cannot be put in the position that Ms DeSouza is in in the future, where rights guarantees end up becoming meaningless in the British system. This is a problem, and it has been going on for a while. The British legal and political systems have not fully recognised the constitutional importance and significance of the Good Friday Agreement for this island, and that needs to change.