Seanad debates
Tuesday, 9 December 2003
Independent Monitoring Commission Bill 2003: Second Stage.
People have asked why there is not another Nationalist representative. The body was designed to represent the two Governments, the US as an honest broker and an interested and co-operative party, and a similar person selected from within Northern Ireland who happens in this case to be Lord Alderdice. It was a carefully constructed, balanced international mechanism but was not designed to be balanced numerically between Nationalism and Unionism, or to function on that basis. I am grateful that Senator Mansergh now sees it would be better to proceed with this body than to walk away from it.
No comments