Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. Gerry Adams
Ms Claire Hanna:
Respectfully I asked him about consent, and I completely understand and respect his perspective on it.
He wanted to give me the wider contextual reasons for the conflict. In his statement he implied he did not support Sunningdale because it did not have the word equality and the consent principles were not strong enough. I think we have established that they were but on the issue of consent and future constitutional change there is a narrative that it was a failure of Good Friday negotiators not to more explicitly put down the grounds for calling a border poll, for example, in that document. Is that a regret Mr. Adams has that the criteria for constitutional change were not more explicitly explained in the document and is that a reason why he did not endorse and campaign for the Good Friday Agreement ahead of the referendum?
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