Ms Alyson Kilpatrick:

I thank Dr. Farry. I will leave the matter with this additional point. Central to the setting up of the commission, which was to secure the peace process as set out in the Good Friday Agreement, was the independence of the commission. All of the talk at that time was about independence and structural and financial autonomy. Without it, we are not a human rights commission as envisaged by the Good Friday Agreement. We need to be the ones who are at least taken seriously when we say we do not have enough to do our jobs properly.