Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Ms Ailbhe Smyth:

It could be funded under PEACEPLUS. In a way, anything of that kind could be. This is all feeding into the ongoing process of peace building and reconciliation. It is also about that other element of drawing in the work that we have to do here in the South and connecting that. There is work to be done currently in each jurisdiction, so to speak, but that crucial work of bringing the two together also has a really critical place. The sorts of recommendations that Ms DeSouza was putting forward are relevant in that regard. I am not a practical policy person. I lead campaigns and do stuff like that. I do not really know who to go to in local government but I do know that we can set up a framework that has the backing of either the shared island initiative or a Department, for example, in tandem with an equivalent in the North. Of course that can be done. That is just a matter of will, of saying that we want to develop awareness and education programmes. We have examples there already like the constitutional conversations involving Ms Eilish Rooney, Dr. Joanna McMinn of Queen's University or the University of Ulster-----

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