Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Business of Joint Committee
Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Lord Alderdice
Frances Black (Independent)
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I thank Lord Alderdice for coming in today. It has been powerful listening to him. Many of the questions have been covered and he has answered them brilliantly, might I add. I only had one question. It is about the drafting of the Good Friday Agreement and the whole area of the criteria for how the Secretary of State can call a border poll at any time and we do not know what the criteria are. I want to get a bit of an understanding of what the thinking was behind that. That is my only question for Lord Alderdice.