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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Ms Weir. That is a stark and a realistic picture. It is quite shocking that after so many years, that is how she and her organisation feel about these issues. If Mr. Holloway or Ms Malone would like to make a comment, they are more than welcome. If they do not, do not worry; we will go to our committee members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Ms Louise Malone: I will speak now. I thank the committee for having me. I work for Youth Action Northern Ireland. We are delighted to be part of the Peace Summit Partnership. It is vitally important that a youth voice is represented and that we continue to strive for the wants and needs of young people. I will be as brief as I can and take the committee through some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Mr. Dáire Hughes: I thank Mr. Atwood, Ms Weir, Mr. Holloway and Ms Malone for attending today's meeting and for contributing to the presentation. I commend the work of each of their organisations in pursuit of reconciliation and for contributing to the committee and this process. I pay particular tribute to the John and Pat Hume Foundation. Those who built the peace on this island are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Mr. Tim Attwood: I will take that first. Obviously there has been a moment of significant political change with Brexit. From the Peace Summit Partnership's point of view these conversations are right, but the need is for inclusivity and debate and discussion based on mutual respect because we all share this island. There is change afoot and it is about how we do that in a way that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Mr. Dáire Hughes: I am not going to dispute that for a second.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Frank Feighan: Yes, I am sharing time with Senator Currie. The witnesses are very welcome again. There are some great names in the Peace Summit Partnership such as the John and Pat Hume Foundation, Community Dialogue, YouthAction NI, Holywell Trust, Ulster University, Integrated Education Fund, NI Youth Forum and the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation. This committee and its members have worked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Frank Feighan: It is at 7% after 20-something years of talking about it. I am disappointed it is not higher. I can understand the reasons but we need to do a lot more. I always remember my good friend, the late Baroness May Blood, who did so much to highlight and promote it. I thank the witnesses for coming in today. I wish them every success.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Frank Feighan: I use middle Ireland as a term that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: Yes, go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Ms Eileen Weir: We need our trade apprenticeships back up and running again because you cannot get an electrician or a joiner. All these trades have gone. All the industries we had prior to the Good Friday Agreement - the shipyards, the ropeworks, the Sirocco Works - have disappeared. We have lost all those trades. My nieces and nephews, who are educated, are crying out for jobs. Some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Mr. Tim Attwood: It is an important question. The John and Pat Hume Foundation has had a relationship with the Royal Irish Academy because John Hume would have been very strong on a balanced regional economy. We would have events in the north west on the Magee campus of Ulster University in Derry and Letterkenny Institute of Technology on investment in the greater north west. When we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: Does Mr. Holloway want to say anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Ms Claire Hanna: I thank the foundation and our witnesses. I remind everyone of the distance we have to go on lots of different issues. Reconciliation as a way of living is coming through all the contributions. The witnesses' call to action talks about tackling paramilitarism, which is quite timely. It is something the assembly discussed this week on the back of an SDLP motion about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Peace Summit Partnership: Discussion (17 Oct 2024)

Mr. Tim Attwood: I will comment on the first and last points. Ms Weir will have comments about paramilitaries. Obviously, there has been an ongoing debate in the media in the North yesterday and there was a debate in the Assembly yesterday. It is a very live issue for a long time and, 26 years after the Good Friday Agreement, it is important it is addressed as soon as possible. It came...