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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: Is there anybody else from Sinn Féin who wishes to speak? The party has a few minutes left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is fine. On the photograph, I was a Minister of State and I was at a North-South meeting in my constituency of the Loughs Agency. It was during the Carlingford festival. There was a Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, Minister there who was great. Everything went grand but unfortunately - to spare him the blushes I will not name him - he would not stand in for a photograph with a plate...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I suppose we should have cleared that with him beforehand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: That was it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: What else are they worried about. I agree.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: The only thing about those meeting - former Minister, Deputy Brendan Smith, would have been in the same position - is that the pre-meeting official briefing was very clear. Everything was laid out, you went into the meeting and it was done. As Mr. O'Connor says, everything was clear before going in. There was the consent of all parties.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: That was definitely there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: Who has not spoken? There is no Labour Party spokesperson - I do not mean that rudely - online. As we have nobody else online, we will go back to the Carlingford area. I call Senator McGreehan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I was going to ask Mr. O’Connor on the origin of the Good Friday Agreement, the question of the Border poll and the reserve function of whomever the British administrator of the North is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: It seems to me, and if Mr. O'Connor does not want to comment, that is fine-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: It seems to be a weakness in the agreement that there is no consensual consent other than his decision. It seems to me, and I know Mr. O'Connor is not a political person and I am not trying to put a political point in his head-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: -----but I am trying to work this out. Mr. O’Connor is absolutely right. It is top of the agenda now and we have to deal it. However, we have to deal with it in a way that is proportionate. My biggest concern is that if there were a poll and it were to be lost, that is one awful thing that might happen. If there were a poll and it were to be won and there was not an appropriate...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: No, it is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: Fair enough.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: Tá sé agam anseo.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is the reference, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: Some of the people to whom I have spoken believe there was an implicit understanding that it would be discussed by the Northern secretary with his or her counterpart in the South-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: -----and that they would then move forward on that issue, rather than the Northern secretary just looking into his or her heart and that being it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is believed that people in different parts-----