Ms Una Boyd:

I wish to echo what both Ms DeSouza and Professor Harvey have said. The DeSouza case has done us all a very strange favour in that it has really drawn the UK Government out on exactly how it will treat the Good Friday Agreement when it is held up to it, when it is asked to respect its obligations under it. The amount of time, resources and effort that have gone into it fighting against being asked to respect its obligations under the Good Friday Agreement is extremely telling. From the perspective of the Irish Government, it is a co-guarantor of this agreement and there has to be action from it to protect the agreement. For a lot of people in Northern Ireland as well, these are Irish citizens who are seeing their rights being refused, and they look to the Irish Government to protect them, as Irish citizens.