Mr. Campbell Scott:

I will answer Senator Currie's questions about the practical things the Government can do. I picked a couple of points that we touched on during the day to provide what I think would add a little more colour. I understand the limitations of a citizens' assembly in the Republic. Let us have a citizens' assembly with special guests. There are ways we can extend the scope to make sure we get the right people represented. That is critical.

I talked about facilitated dialogue, and just to put a bit more colour on that, coming up to the Good Friday Agreement, sterling work was done by all the politicians we saw on the news day by day, but an awful lot of undercover work went on for years before that. An example is the work done by Martin McAleese with the loyalist paramilitaries in Belfast. That was hugely needed and powerfully impactful. The Irish Government has an opportunity to fund that type of work. It should send people up to meet these people, spend time with them, facilitate and bring them down here.

The other entity I did some work with was the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation. It is a great mechanism for facilitating dialogue and getting the people who need to be together in the same room in a safe environment with an opportunity to get these discussions going. Those people then go back and influence their communities. That is how change happens. It is not by putting up a single item. If the Irish Government wants to do things, it should fund that type of work, as that would have a significant impact.