Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

Staff in the Taoiseach's office said they were scanning the legislation to see if a mechanism existed and, if that mechanism does not exist, legislation would be forthcoming. Urgency is critical here so it does not drag on for months or longer.

Sometimes we talk about these things as ancient history but in many ways they are alive in people's lives today. I think of Councillor Denise Mullen, for example, who in the last week brought Garfield Beattie to court in relation to a threat he sent her over the last year. Garfield Beattie murdered Denise Mullen's father in front of her in their home when she was four years old and fired shots at her mother. She witnessed that situation and the same man has this week been convicted of sending threatening letters in the name of the east Tyrone UVF brigade. These tensions and difficulties remain and these individuals are living in the communities in which they wrought such phenomenal destruction. That pain is as alive today for many people as it was before.

Another issue the committee has touched on before is that the British are signatories to international agreements such as the Good Friday Agreement and the Stormont House Agreement. Have the witnesses' campaigns looked at the potential to hold the British to account in terms of the amnesty through international legal means, such as European courts, etc., to make sure they uphold their end of the agreements they signed?