Ms Claire Hanna:

I agree with much of that sentiment and the premise that it can be made to work. The Good Friday Agreement is not making parties keep the executive down. This is about attitudes rather than standing orders necessarily, although it is a reality that people in the region are not getting good government.

I do not sense that there is going to be a massive change in that. There is an addiction veto within the body politic and some of that will have to be addressed by regulation and standing orders. Although, working back from what is already in the agreement, for example, in regard to the First Minister, there is a way to restore it while keeping the integrity of what people voted for in 1998 that maybe does not have to break all the eggs that one would have to break otherwise.

With regard to what is already there, it is still my view that there are many under-utilised parts of the agreement. Hopefully, some of what is in the Windsor Framework will help to smooth the concerns of those who have genuine concerns around limiting the sea border and the so-called democratic deficit. Is there anything else in strands 2 or 3 that we should be using better to navigate our way through the challenges we face at the moment about dealing with Brexit or other mechanisms?