Mr. Daniel Holder:

The Senator is right. There is no transitional justice mechanism within the Good Friday Agreement. What it did do, which was very important, was incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into Northern Ireland law. That has been transformational but even that is now under threat, in complete contravention of the agreement. It is notable that even the British Government's own paper to the UK Parliament on the human rights compliance of the Bill stated that the mechanism it proposes to set up in its view, which we do not agree with, complies with most of the obligations under Article 2 of the ECHR. You have to comply with all of the law, not most of it. Even the UK Government's own paper appears to concede that this is unlawful. It is a very worrying development.