Ms Aingeal O?Donoghue:

My responsibilities are not only shared island matters but also Northern Ireland and British-Irish relations. There are places where it all flows together, as it were, and issues around rights are one of them. There is a very clear Irish Government position, as there is in the Good Friday Agreement, on the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Government continues to remind the British Government of that. The boundaries as to what are shared island matters and what is the broader Irish Government policy are not always absolutely sealed.