Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My colleague, Deputy Tully, and I will share this slot and Mickey Brady MP, will come in after that. I thank our witnesses very much for their submissions and for taking the time to be appear before our committee, and I welcome Ms Kilpatrick.

We have scrutinised what has been happening and this is timely, urgent and worrying in many aspects, a concern we all share. These issues have also been outlined in the submissions. There are common denominators across all of the witnesses we have spoken to around what is happening at the moment in respect of the erosion of basic human rights, the impact of Brexit and the legislation that is being tried to put through, whether that is the protocol legislation or the legacy legislation.

I was looking back at the report produced by the joint committee of the commissions of 2011 and my first question pertains to how the Good Friday Agreement and the Joint Declaration set out to establish a charter of rights for the island of Ireland. The joint committee of the commissions examined that in its report of 2011 and it outlined some very constructive next steps to be taken to finalise the context of a charter of rights for the island of Ireland. My first question is to ask where that is at, at that moment, and what roles do the Irish Government and British Government still have to play in that regard.