Dáil debates

Wednesday, 30 November 2022

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

2:02 pm

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

I was in Westminster a couple of weeks ago with the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Westminster is pushing ahead with its Troubles legacy Bill, which will give amnesty for the murder of Irish people. Before the Taoiseach leaves office, will he say to the British Government that the Irish Government will take it to the European Court of Human Rights if it proceeds with that Bill?

I was also in Washington with the Good Friday Agreement committee, speaking to senators and congressmen and women. They expect to come to this State for the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement next April. All the political views in the North at the moment expect there is going to be no Executive in place on the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Will the Taoiseach start the process now of changing the manner in which the Executive works so that it cannot be crashed or stopped ever again? That work has to happen now; otherwise, we are going to bust through the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement with no functioning Executive.

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