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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I would say Mr. McCord would.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Okay. Does Deputy Costello want to make a proposal? He made a proposal that the committee would write on behalf of the Government with regard to the legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Does anybody else wish to comment? Ms Gildernew is gone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: On that point, it should be properly and appropriately audited and signed off on. Nobody should be able to get money from the State or any Government agency-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Ask for the audit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: We all want to acknowledge that. On the question of funding, Irish Government funding can only go to appropriately qualified organisations that are bona fide. If it is the case that they are not, they should not be getting that funding. That is the reality. That is what we are saying. As a committee, we should ask for the audit and the analysis of the funding and the detail of it. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Of course. The obvious thing is the audit. Every Department is audited. There must be an audit of funding. There must be criteria. There must be a matrix of how it is distributed. There must be applications and due process. I do not know all of the Departments that might be involved-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: No, of course it is not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: However, our remit runs to here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes, but there are members of this committee who attend who would have access to the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Of course. The only point I wanted to make was our remit as a committee runs, obviously, to the Government and bodies under the Oireachtas. They are funded by us as an Oireachtas. With the other funding, some of it comes from the British Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Other funding comes from other places but the point is our guests are absolutely right that there must be transparency. Mr. McCord was talking about intimidating criminality. That is appalling, especially for people who have suffered and who are victims. Not alone had he a family member murdered but the gravestone was desecrated and to be treated as he has been is entirely unacceptable and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: We are happy to follow up with him as a committee. If he wants to invite us we are happy to meet-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: -----with your people in the appropriate way, I think.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Okay, on that happy note I thank our guests for attending. I thank them for their integrity. It has been difficult for them to come here and speak as they did but we very much want to acknowledge that. We will communicate with them. Our next meeting will be with another group, called Strive. Before we adjourn, Mr. McCord has some concluding remarks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Thank you very much. We would be very happy to take you up on that at the appropriate date.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Truth and Justice Movement (7 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Mr. McCord.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Listening to President Zelenskyy this morning was a very moving experience. His words were thoughtful and reflective. The truths he told about the appalling things that are happening to his fellow citizens in Ukraine are shocking and horrifying. Worse is probably yet to come. Putin's soldiers are massacring civilians and razing cities to the ground just like the Nazis did in the Second...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Policies (6 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will respond to proposals (details supplied) in respect of a wider response to the rising cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18430/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (6 Apr 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 57. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to funding schemes that would be considered for a club (details supplied) following its selection to host the Junior American NBA programme in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18616/22]