Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice

Mr. Daniel Holder:

The opponents of equality can be different people at different times and on different issues. We have learned during this process to almost speak in code and not call different people out. Sometimes it is a source of immense frustration for most of the political parties in the North when they get blamed for something that is largely being done by one party. There is no secret that it is the DUP that has used the St. Andrews Agreement veto and the agenda veto to block, left, right and centre, provisions that were agreed to as part of the peace settlement, albeit the DUP-----