Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses and I thank them for their incredible and powerful statements. My first question relates to the international process needed for the courts. I ask the witnesses to highlight precedents where such a process has happened previously. I refer, for example, to Rwanda where the international community and the UN Security Council has done something similar. I would also like to know about the impediments to the international process in terms of the courts. Would the absence of legislation in Iraq to deal with an international court hold up such a process and, if so, what can we do to encourage the Iraqi Government to pass the legislation that will be needed to collaborate on such a process?

My next question in relation to the international court pertains to Ireland and its position within the EU and on the UN Security Council.

What would the witnesses strongly encourage our State to do to assist in this plight?

Will the witnesses tell us about the education work that they take on and the support they have been receiving from the INTO in that regard, and what we can do to help support that essential work?