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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: Have you spoken to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: Has Ms Fullerton made it known to An Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice and Equality that the Garda will not co-operate with the Police Ombudsman in Northern Ireland and that the Garda has not contacted you since 2009?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: Would it be helpful if the committee related Ms Fullerton's fears to the Taoiseach and the Minister?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: I am conscious that we are running out of time, so I will ask Senator Daly to comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: I am conscious of the time and suggest that we wind up shortly. Do any of the witnesses wish to comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: Thank you, Mr. Stack. On behalf of the committee, I thank all the witnesses. Thank you for the way you have articulated your submissions, stories and powerful testimony. It has been very helpful to us and I hope we can be of help to you in future. Mr. Teggart, I am sorry to hear about the northern delays you have experienced regarding the new inquest into the case of your loved ones....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: We resume in public session. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person or body outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: That is no problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: I thank Mr. Gormally. I now invite members to ask questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: Will that be on a cross-Border basis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: Does Mr. Gormally have any insight as to how cross-Border investigations could be carried out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: Mr. Devas stated that suffering can be at a community level where there is collective trauma. Have there been any successful community approaches in Northern Ireland that have addressed this issue? How can the issue be addressed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: Did the British Government give any reasons for not having the proposed implementation reconciliation group enshrined in legislation? Mr. Gormally stated that its failure to do so risks making its establishment, powers and duties political footballs down the road. What precisely did he mean by that comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Outstanding Legacy Issues affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2015)

Frank Feighan: On behalf of the committee, I thank all of the delegates for attending. I thank all of the committee's staff and the members of the public who have attended in the Visitors Gallery. I also thank the members of the committee. As I stated, this series of meetings has been very informative and highly productive. It has concerned an issue that is of profound significance to the peace process,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (16 Jul 2015)

Frank Feighan: I remind members and guests to turn off their mobile phones completely as they interfere with the broadcasting of proceedings. I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Frank Feighan: On behalf of the joint committee, I am pleased to welcome Mr. Nigel Frith, a director of the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education and principal of Drumragh Integrated College; Ms Cliodhna Scott-Wills, the council's senior development officer, and Mr. Jake Proctor, a student at Strangford Integrated College. They are here to represent the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Frank Feighan: The witness groups placed a very powerful speaker first. It is interesting that Mr. Proctor wants to master in history. I think politics could be a future for him. I thank Mr. Proctor for his powerful contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Frank Feighan: We have a difficulty in that democracy is intervening. A vote has been called in the Dáil and we have to suspend the sitting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Frank Feighan: I apologise to the delegates for the disruption and invite Mr. Frith to resume.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Integrated Education in Northern Ireland: Discussion (16 Jul 2015)

Frank Feighan: Do any of our guests wish to make a contribution?