Mr. Daniel Holder:

It is very important to counter the UK's line that there somehow needs to be universal consensus on a bill of rights before it is implemented because that is simply contained nowhere in the Good Friday Agreement. It is very important the Irish Government never takes that line and the committee and others make representations to the UK authorities to progress the bill of rights without that prerequisite. The first step is the Human Rights Commission refreshing its advice on what the content should be on the back of the work of the ad hoccommittee in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the new context we find ourselves in as a result of Brexit. Many of the issues we have talked about today, such as freedom of movement and the common travel area, were never envisaged in the original discussions on a bill of rights because with shared EU membership that was a given.