Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Representatives from the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation
Ms Róisín McGlone:
I have been lucky enough to study peace processes throughout the world. I have also been out to South Africa and Macedonia. There is no perfect peace process. There is no perfect society out there that has come through conflict. I am very proud of where I come from so I would say that we have done good. As Ms McNamee has said, yes there were difficulties with the Good Friday Agreement and particularly around the issues of victims and survivors who should have been central to the agreement and they were not. It is just as simple as that, in my humble opinion. They should have been central but they were not but look at what else we did. I do not believe we are ever going get a shared understanding, but I do believe that we can share with each other our understandings and get a better idea of where other people are coming from, as opposed to taking up positions because taking up positions gets us nowhere.
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