Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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This question is to IHREC. Regarding political ex-prisoners, the argument could be made on some level that some of this legislation might have been required previously. I am talking about those who were released under the Good Friday Agreement and had encountered issues with, for example, insurance and the right to adopt. At one stage, many of them had issues related to work. I remember a case taken by Michael Farrell, which he won. It was about taxi drivers; the Good Friday Agreement and the right to work were the two means by which that was done. Would there be a possibility within this framework and the hodgepodge of legislation for us to deal with something? It is the Good Friday Agreement and the time that has elapsed. We are talking about people who were in prison during a particular context and a particular time in history that we are very glad to have moved beyond.