Ms Naoimh McNamee:

I appreciate Mr. Brady's experience within his community. We too very much see a great coming together of younger people, who are looking for a more hopeful future, and that is something we want to support. I fully accept his point about how the 50% plus-one threshold is a matter of democracy, but our concern relates to the impact of that on the peace process and good relations, not to whether the vote goes one way or the other. I agree work would need to be done on that, with information on any campaign or any view of how the future might look. For us, it is about the importance of bringing people along as much as possible and the volume of work that would be involved in that. We believe in making that investment in people, hearing their views and helping everyone who is to be included in a state or country to feel a part of that and to feel as though they have a place there, whatever that might look like.

That is where we are coming from with those comments.

The Good Friday Agreement is a fabulous achievement and we would not for a second take away from that. We are clearly very much in support of it but it is a matter of implementation. Today we are focusing on the lack of provision for victims and survivors. It is not perfect; no peace process is. There are gaps and things that have not been implemented. That is what we are talking about. That is not to take away at all from the overall achievement of the Good Friday Agreement. There are always rays of hope within communities, large and small, in the North. That is particularly true of the young people in how they are coming together and working so hard. Some of the organisations and individuals we work with in the North are working so hard to keep relationships strong, keep a sense of hope and try to work together through this. That is what we want to support in Glencree.