Ms Gr?inne Teggart:

Deputy Costello is correct. The one thing this Bill has achieved - I used the word "achieved" very loosely - is to unite victims right across the community and political parties right across the island in opposition to it. One would think the UK Government would heed that, but so far it has not.

On the changes, as I mentioned, there is not transparency around the UK Government's thinking. I have a meeting coming up with the Secretary of State on it. As I indicated in my opening remarks, I will make very clear at the meeting that there are no minor amendments that can be made to the Bill. There are no amendments that can be made to the Bill that would make it human rights compliant. It is not a Bill that can be fixed, which is unlike other legislation we would work on where we would table amendments and make it human rights compliant. The Bill is so egregious that the only way forward is effectively for it to be scrapped and for us to revert to the Stormont House Agreement plus, because, as I have mentioned in our briefing, there were some issues in that agreement that had to be tweaked and addressed, for example, in regard to those who were seriously injured or who were victims of sexual crime. In doing so, the Stormont House Agreement would have discharged the UK's human rights obligations, and had it stayed with that commitment, we would have been seven or eight years into that process and victims would not be waiting in the way Mr. O'Hare, Mr. Reavey and so many others are for a measure of meaningful truth, justice, and accountability.