Mr. John Finucane:

I thank the Minister for his time. I appreciate it. I was aware that the Minister and the Government had raised our own case in the context of discussions last week. That is something that we are keeping a close eye on as a family. To broaden it out, the uniform approach of this committee is something that is not party political is the fact that we need to have mechanisms in place that deliver for everybody and provides that opportunity of access for all families, to use the Minister's words, regardless of perpetrators because that is very important. The fact that families have had to wait five decades in some cases is the context in which we meet today, because a group of families did have a rare moment of progress after five decades. A process lasting five decades is not what grandchildren or, in some cases, great grandchildren should have had to embark upon. People should be free to get on and live their lives without having to engage in legacy processes. The Minister is right, however, in that we are where we are. In the process we now enter into, I trust the Government knows where victims, families and campaign groups stand. It is important that we come out of this quickly and enter a period of implementation. Our party looks forward to engaging on that in the period before a line is drawn in the autumn.