Mr. Chris Hazzard:

I thank Mr. Durkan for his contribution. It has been very enlightening. We have had some discussions around the review of the Good Friday Agreement, where we would like to go to and the dangers, opportunities and challenges of that. One of those areas is North-South institutions. For reasons Mr. Durkan might touch upon, the areas to be included in North-South arrangements were decided in 1998. Where do we stand today? We have to look at the biodiversity and nature crisis. Is there scope to expand North-South institutions to look at that? How do we make those institutions and functions more resilient? They were one of the first things to go when there were troubled waters at Stormont. As Mr. Durkan has alluded to already, the only function of the Good Friday Agreement that is currently working is the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference, which is due to meet shortly. How would we make the North-South institutions more robust in the time ahead, if we had that ability?