Ms Ruth Taillon:

I wish to mention something we have been trying to highlight for a while. It was decided in 2006 or 2008 under the St. Andrews Agreement that the areas of co-operation would be reviewed and further areas of co-operation would be sought. We have been putting a focus on the need for this to be reprioritised. We are concerned that the Good Friday Agreement seems to be getting reduced to strand one. We know there is a crisis with the institutions North of the Border. Progress with strands two and three has been pretty slow. Strand three is almost entirely outside public consciousness. The cross-Border bodies have just been ticking over without really being able to live up to their potential. This review needs to start by putting a focus on the strand two bodies and institutions. After progress has been made in that regard, civil society can weigh in on some of these issues. All this needs to be supported, resourced and institutionalised.