Ms Claire Hanna:

I thank all the commissioners. I really appreciate all their input and expertise today and also their guidance and expert information on many of the very challenging issues we have been dealing with over the past few years, flowing from Brexit and legacy issues.

It is good to see the depth and breadth of the co-operation and collaboration between the commissions. They are doing joint work.

The danger in coming in fourth in these meetings is that many of the big topics have already been ably covered by my colleagues. I do not want to run over those issues in depth. I do, however, wish to pick up on a couple of issues, including those touched on by Senator Currie in respect of electric travel authorisation and advice that the committee might have provided, been asked to provide or thought about providing, particularly in the context of transport and people privately and publicly in the business of transporting people across the Border. Has any advice been sought or prepared for them and their obligations under the ETA as we think it might exist?

Ms Kilpatrick's evidence in respect of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill at the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee was enlightening and instructive. Many of us would concur that it is largely irredeemable but we are in the business of doing what is possible, for better and worse. We will get a sense of how meaningful this is in the coming weeks and months. There have been noises about accepting serious amendments and so on. Have the commissions been asked for advice by the Government in Dublin? Has that been given? Has guidance been provided in that regard?

I also wish to ask about the Nationalities and Borders Act, and the general context for asylum seekers and refugees in the North and the South, but particularly in the North, which is obviously where most of the cases I am dealing with arise. There are pressures around accommodation and resources for asylum seekers and human rights implications for how those services are being provided and not provided. The issues of the ETA, the legacy and the rights environment for asylum seekers have been touched on but those are the points on which I want to pick up.