Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

British Government Legacy Proposals: Discussion

Professor Kieran McEvoy:

All of the above. As Mr. Hazzard knows, the UN special rapporteur on transitional justice carried out a visit to Northern Ireland in 2014 and 2015 and was quite critical at that stage about what was going on. His successor issued a very strong critique of the command paper. Obviously we have sent our materials to him again and said this is the new version of the legislation and one would expect the UN special rapporteur on transitional justice to come back as well. He has serious misgivings on the use of amnesties per seso I expect the UN to issue something critical fairly soon on it as well.

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