Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Jonathan Powell

Photo of Emer CurrieEmer Currie (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Following on from my question earlier, I am interested to hear how Mr. Powell feels we should be engaging with the Protestant, unionist and loyalist community. I very much feel there is no role for paramilitarism. It should have left the stage a long time ago and in fact the problems we talk about in terms of cycles of poverty, drugs, coercive control of communities, prosperity and hope are not going to be solved by paramilitaries. How would Mr. Powell advise us to engage with loyalism but not paramilitarism?

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