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Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Last week, thousands of third level students were on the streets outside the Dáil demanding increased investment in education and rejecting a student loans system. While the Government speaks of helping families in need, it has no problem with the ever-increasing cost of third level education becoming a crippling burden on thousands of students and their parents. Astronomical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: As we have a quorum, we will begin in public session. Apologies have been received from Senators Landy, Ó Donnghaile and Craughwell and Deputy Sean Sherlock. I welcome everyone back after the recess. I know we have been back a few weeks now. Today, we will begin the first of our meetings regarding the legacy issues we have discussed on a number of occasions. We will invite a wide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome our witnesses to the committee today: Ms Anne Cadwallader from the Pat Finucane Centre; Ms Margaret Urwin from Justice for the Forgotten; and Mr. Mike Ritchie and Mr. Paul Butler from Relatives for Justice. I thank all the representatives for being here today. This is the first in a series of meetings regarding legacy issues. I also welcome those persons in the Public Gallery who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Thank you very much, Ms Cadwallader. I now call Ms Margaret Urwin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Ms Urwin. I call Mr. Mike Ritchie.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Thank you, Mr. Ritchie. Would Mr. Butler like to add anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: You can come in on the questions. I am opening up the meeting to questions. I call Senator Daly. We will take a few questions together, and then we will come back to the witnesses. Could people indicate if they have a question for a specific person or a general Inquiry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I call Mr. Paul Maskey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I call Deputy Declan Breathnach. I thank the representatives of the Pat Finucane Centre, Justice for the Forgotten, and Relatives for Justice for giving such excellent presentations and indeed the people in the Gallery who have come to hear what we have to say. The Chair has asked us to ask questions, but I think it is important, coming from a Border constituency where many people have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: We come back to the witnesses, and start with Ms Cadwallader.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Ms Cadwallader. Would anybody else like to come in on those questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: There are three more questioners indicating. I will then pose one or two questions myself. I call Deputy Brendan Smith.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I call Mr. Mickey Brady.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I have two brief questions. Ms Anne Cadwallader made a point in her remarks about the criminal justice budget that 0.2% goes to legacy issues. In the additional £1 billion that has been secured, does she know if any of this has been allocated for legacy issues? In relation to the cases that were not accepted by the ombudsman, does Ms Urwin know if any reason was given, or what were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I think Ms Urwin has covered everything.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Thank you. I call on Mr. Mike Ritchie.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: Would Ms Cadwallader like to comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank Mr. Ritchie and Ms Cadwallader.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: On behalf of the committee, I thank all of the delegates for being here today. We believe everybody on all sides needs to see justice and truth. It is unacceptable to us that people have had to campaign for so long just to get information. This is a topic on which the committee is now focused. As I am sure the delegates are aware, the focus of the committee earlier this year and last year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Kathleen Funchion: I do not think there is any issue with that. The British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly is meeting in Liverpool on Sunday. Deputies Brendan Smith and Breathnach and I are members of the assembly and as such we can try to-----