Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation for its opening statement and for all of the work that it does. It is great to have them here before us today.

I want to start with the last part, I suppose, in terms of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill 2022. Mr. Hynes rightly documents the legacy Bill being repugnant to all kinds of international law, and yet it is proceeding unilaterally through the House of Lords. In Mr. Hynes' opinion, the Irish Government would have to do everything it possibly can and it may be in the situation where all it can do is take an inter-state case showing that it is repugnant to Article 2. Would Mr. Hynes agree that the Irish Government should be preparing to take that inter-state case in the event of it being proceeded with?