Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Justice for the Forgotten

Ms Margaret Urwin:

It is difficult because we are not lawyers. That is what we have been told. We have been told the issue is that they are not sure how information would be managed or passed over. What the officials in the Department of Justice are saying is that they are not sure how such information might be managed by the Boutcher team, so they are seeking clarification from the Attorney General. We understand there is a request for advice from the Attorney General and it is to go to the Attorney General in the next few days. It is expected it will go early next week, we would hope, so the Attorney General can respond to that. We want know whether the current legislation is sufficient to enable them to share all the information they have. That is about as much as we know, to be honest. It seems to be a problem with the type of investigation that it is, in that it is actually a review and not a criminal investigation.

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