Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will make a point about what Dr. Soares said. People will find that on this committee, what we need and want is a sustainable architecture to get the interface between politics and civil society right and to make it count in order that we do not have a whole industry around the protocol and other things. We need focused action that will help implementation. The implementation deficit, be that in the Stormont House Agreement, the St Andrews Agreement or the Good Friday Agreement, is where the challenge lies for us all. Everything we do should go towards addressing that implementation deficit because we have seen what can happen when there are vacuums. It is a curse on all our Houses that there has not been implementation. It should be done wherever it can be. The Irish Government has a major role to play in this, as do the British Government and committees like this. I hope we will have an opportunity to engage with the ad hocgroup, or even individually, as was done with the Longford Women's Link and the youth forum, in order to further tease out the issues, in particular, around barriers that we can collectively help to break down. We are all trying to address what has come from partition and how partition has not served us across this island.