Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill and the UK Government's Plans around the Human Rights Act: Amnesty International UK
Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
We would not have any issue with that. We have other private business to do but I want to thank Ms Teggart, Mr. Reavey and Mr. O'Hare for their evidence and the case they have made for the human aspect of it, even after so many years. It is shocking, appalling and unforgivable and the wrong that has been done can never be redressed. To abuse a process that was agreed under the Stormont House Agreement and bring in legislation which would prevent putting the victims and their families at the centre of all that happens in the Good Friday Agreement, is entirely and absolutely unacceptable.
I acknowledge the humanity and the emotion of Mr. O'Hare's evidence and how profoundly distressing and disturbing it has been for him to have had to give it.
The committee will now go into private session if that is agreed. Did Deputy Tully want to say something?
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