Mr. Raymond McCord:

To finish off from our side, we thank everyone for the invitation and the way we have been treated here. It is just a pity we were not treated like this up in Belfast and we have to travel down to Dublin to put a case forward. I hope what members have heard of the similarities in our stories helps them realise how badly victims have been treated. I have a final suggestion. I spoke there about a football match we arranged the other week that was cross-community and cross-Border. I want to ask the Irish Government two things. I have spoken to Crusaders and am hoping to arrange before the summer an all-Ireland seven-a-side under-16 competition with teams from the South and teams from Northern Ireland, to be played in Belfast between Crusaders' ground, which is in a unionist area, and Cliftonville, which is in a nationalist area of north Belfast. I hope it will be a North-South final. We are in the process too of organising an international victims' conference. We hope that will be in September but I have to get the dates sorted. We are to get the Americans and the Cathaoirleach, Senator Daly, is helping us with that too. I will invite members of the committee, once it is arranged, to come to Belfast for the conference.