Ms Claire Hanna:

I would be very keen to get last reflections from the panellists. Professor Tonge had some very interesting data on people's attachment to the institutions and the concepts of power-sharing. Is there anything out there that disaggregates people's attachment to power-sharing and to the precise set of regulations we have at the moment? Could Mr. McCallister and Professor Tonge build generally on Ms Mercer's point about how this could be brought forward? I appreciate that this is kind of an entry-level conversation, not least because the agreement has been our lifeboat or our amulet against a very hard Brexit and there are those who would be only too willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater in examining it. As we have established through the likes of the St. Andrews Agreement and, for example, Mr. McCallister's Bill in 2015, which created an official opposition, we have tweaked this in the way the Good Friday Agreement was designed to accommodate these matters. Perhaps all the witnesses could build on how we should best advance this conversation. I agree with Ms Mercer that this committee is charged with overseeing the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. There are so many external impediments, frustrations and challenges, Brexit being the key one and Anglo-Irish relationships being a broader one, but there are efficiencies and improvements here that could be in the hands of the Assembly and that are entirely within its gift. It would be a good function of this committee to help facilitate that conversation and, as Senator Currie suggested, maybe advance a paper on it. Perhaps there are other actions that members think could be taken within the confines both of the politics as they stand and the purview of the committee and of the Assembly. I thank everyone again for coming.