Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

People have been celebrating the Good Friday Agreement for the past number of weeks. It was a phenomenal international agreement which has created peace for 25 years. It is not a living document, however; it is defunct. The Assembly is on the floor. The Executive is broken. The North-South Ministerial Council is AWOL at the moment. There is no urgency in terms of the Government's approach to fixing it. The Government is a guarantor of the Good Friday Agreement but is not guaranteeing it. The celebrations for the Good Friday Agreement are akin to having a birthday party for a person who does not have a pulse. The Government should be absolutely ashamed of the fact that there are no democratic institutions operating in the North.

The legacy Bill gives an amnesty for the British state in terms of murders that happened in Ireland for the past 50 years.

It is the son and heir of British murder and collusion over that 50-year period. I am shocked by the Government's very careful wording on this. The Government should be stating very clearly that it will bring the British Government to the European Court of Human Rights if it proceeds with the legacy Bill. The legacy Bill is likely to be finished in the House of Commons at the end of this month and signed into royal assent by King Charles, which is incredible. The British are going the opposite direction with regard to reconciliation with this country and fixing the wrongs it is doing, and the Government is standing idly by.

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