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

I thank our guest speakers for those contributions. I would greatly appreciate, with the indulgence of the Chair, if our guests might give the committee a synopsis of that, where things are at, and any suggestions that they might have, particularly in respect of submissions that we could make to the Irish Government and the part that it needs to play to move that on. We are finding many of the challenges and problems we are facing now would be null and void, had all of the agreements been fully implemented. We are the Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and have a responsibility to ensure that all of the agreement is implemented. Such a synopsis would be very useful and would be greatly appreciated.

The legacy Bill is obviously of great concern to us and needs to be withdrawn for many of the reasons outlined in Ms Kilpatrick’s submission. Does she consider that if the legacy Bill is to go ahead, the Irish Government will have any choice but to take an interstate case to Europe against the British Government because there is so much which is wrong and detrimental about this Bill?

Could the witnesses comment on that?