Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 September 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Mark Durkan
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I thank Mr. Durkan for joining. Although it is difficult within the confines of the agreement at the time, I want to better understand the mindset on the difference between achieving an agreement and knowing that you are achieving an agreement essentially on constitutional and political structures and having a sense that things were being left over, as it were, for example, legacy or the path towards mutual respect and reconciliation. To what extent at the time were people aware of that or thinking about that? Has Mr. Durkan been surprised or disappointed in terms of the operation of the agreement and how things have actually played since?
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