Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I understand the North-South consultative forum was to be drawn from civic society and have social partners and so on involved in it. Will that ever happen? It is now ten years since the Good Friday Agreement and not very much seems to be happening to establish this body. I note that the last meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council was held in February and the next one is scheduled for January. Is it sufficient that North-South Ministerial Council effectively meets just once a year? What progress, if any, is being made on the establishment of the North-South parliamentary body which was also to be established under the Good Friday Agreement?

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