Emer Currie (Fine Gael)
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As we are doing a review of the Good Friday Agreement, this needs to feature in it. We need to look at paramilitaries and the coercive control of communities. The Good Friday Agreement pledges funding for community-based victims' programmes and financial assistance for the work of reconciliation. We need to follow that up. We need to write to the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Executive and Co-operation Ireland about the process for funding. As I said earlier, we have to make sure the funding continues to the people who are doing the good work but make sure it does not fall into the hands of paramilitaries.