Niall Blaney (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chairman. I forgot earlier to pass on Deputy Brendan Smith’s apologies to the Chairman as the Deputy had an appointment in Cavan this morning and could not be here.

The conversation has been very good and interesting. The one thing that is still hanging out there for me is how do we go about pulling this together. Have any of our contributors got any vision or thoughts around how they might make this happen? That is the key. The material and the discussion is very good but how to get this on the agenda, get it heard and getting a process under way is the issue. The Good Friday Agreement, as alluded to by Deputy Conway-Walsh, is an international agreement and so much work was done by the two Governments to deliver it, with the US Administration as a middle guarantor.

Will something like that be necessary? Have the witnesses other ideas as to how this might work?