Mr. Francie Molloy:

I thank the officials for the presentation. A very important dialogue is taking place. This committee is called the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. I want to see where the links are between the shared island unit and the Good Friday Agreement implementation bodies. We continue to talk around the issues but at the end of the day the Good Friday Agreement has not been fully implemented and is not being fully implemented. We are moving into different angles. How can we blend the two things together to benefit each other?

Increasingly, I have an issue with talk of the "all-island" unit and "all-island" development. We are dropping the word "Ireland" from the issues. This is an issue, along with references to "Northern Ireland" and "Ireland". It is one country at the end of the day. Separating the two like this makes people very uncomfortable. These are the issues I see. It is very important that we engage right across the island of Ireland but that we remember it is one Ireland. This is the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. How do we link the two together?