Ms Eileen Weir:

From my point of view, the bill of rights is crucial, in particular for women. Now that we are out of Europe, it is even more crucial because we do not know which way things are going to turn. The bill of rights cannot replace anything that is already in the Good Friday Agreement. I think the constitutional question within the Good Friday Agreement covers the constitutional question, and civil society will decide and has the choice whether to remain or leave, whatever it may be. I do not think a bill of rights needs to incorporate anything about the constitutional question - that is only my view of it - because it is already covered within the Good Friday Agreement. The bill of rights allows a lot more for protection. I know that at this minute in time we have other people - quite rightly; they are entitled to do this - going against parts of the Windsor Framework, in particular Article 2, which is rights-based. It scares me that there are people actively trying to take rights out of a document because it is tied to Europe. It makes it more crucial for us to have a bill of rights.

As custodians of the Good Friday Agreement, the Irish Government and the UK Government need to sit down. When I was at a human rights meeting on Monday, they gave me all this information because they knew I was coming here and they said they cannot get anybody to engage in this. They have been everywhere. They have been in Westminster, they have been in Stormont, they have approached the Irish Government and nobody wants to sit down and talk about it. As custodians of the Good Friday Agreement, the UK Government and the Irish Government have something to do around this because they are guarantors of that. They have oversight that things within the Good Friday Agreement are implemented in the way in which they were meant at the time. Only four were mentioned. I could have gone on forever. Look at what has happened to the legacy Bill. There are a lot of things happening that we voted for. What people see in the communities within the Good Friday Agreement is that the men got out of prison and that was the end of the Good Friday Agreement because nothing else seems to be moving.