Niall Blaney (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There are a number of us on the committee who are very interested in this work leading up to the 25-year anniversary. It is very important this committee does a report, and many of us feel that way. It is very important we get that insight that many people do not know or understand. This is the start of that journey. Mr. O'Connor still has a great insight and it is great to get the insight he has given so far today. I am talking about his colleagues, as well as those politicians from the different political parties who were there and who made major contributions at different stages.

What Mr. O’Connor said about the village was a great analogy for how the work was done at the time, and he referred to the relationship between the two Governments, east and west. I would like to know more detail, if Mr. O’Connor has it, on the political parties and about how trust was gained with them. There has to be trust in the room-----