Mr. Michael Culbert:

I did not quite hear everything that was said. My apologies. The easy question to answer concerns the number of political ex-prisoners on the island. Queen's University and several organisations did research. It is quite difficult to find out numbers. The approximate numbers are 24,000 republicans and 16,000 loyalists were in prison. We are talking about a population of about 40,000 political ex-prisoners on the island, plus their families.

One of the major issues we have been trying to highlight is that that imprisonment affects the families, not just the former political prisoner himself or herself. Within the Protestant-----