Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Impact of Brexit on the Divergence of Rights and Best Practice on the Island of Ireland: Discussion

Ms Geraldine McGahey:

As Ms Gibney said, some of the recommendations have been made by all three commissions, while others have been made specifically by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and us because they have a Northern Ireland context. Given this committee is involved in the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and equality was at the heart of that agreement, as were human rights, and given that is the foundation on which our peace process has been built, it is wholly appropriate that this committee would be interested in what those recommendations are, how the Governments act in implementing those recommendations and the progress we make.

Each year, we issue an annual report on the progress in our work over the previous year. Our second annual report, which we will issue next week, will show the recommendations we have made in regard to what was the protocol and is now the Windsor Framework and to how the Government has been working towards reacting - I will not say "implementing" because that has not been the case - to our recommendations. We will address in each year's subsequent annual report the work that has been done in the previous year, and we will be more than happy to share that with the committee.

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