Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
11 November 2026
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Northern Ireland Affairs Committee House of Commons
Follow its sittings00:03 - 00:31
Speaker 2
Order. Welcome to the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee session on the Troubles bill. I'd like to thank Sir Declan Morgan, the Chief Commissioner, Ronnie Armour, the interim Chief Executive Officer, and Amanda Logan, the Assistant Commissioner, for joining us today. So, thank you very much. Sir Declan, thanks for the information that you provided to our session in June
00:31 - 00:41
Speaker 1
and your recent correspondence also on information sharing by the Irish government. Have these arrangements improved since you were last before the committee?
00:41 - 02:16
Speaker 3
No, not particularly. We have I think sent a total of 12 letters in relation to these matters and haven't had any reply. Or sorry, we have had an acknowledgement, but we haven't had a substantive reply in relation to them. I think it's important to recognize that this issue is necessarily a complex one. The arrangements we have in place in relation to the United Kingdom is that the Secretary of State acts as the guarantor in relation to matters of national security.
There are strict provisions within the act in terms of what the commission can do in relation to that material. There are criminal offences which are in place to ensure the protection and operation of those procedures. We have always aspired towards being able to have information disclosure protocols with Ireland in exactly the same way as we have with agencies within the United Kingdom. But one can see that if we were to try to replicate the protections for Ireland's national security interests within the UK space that it becomes extremely difficult to see how that works. And I think that means therefore that there is a need for a political solution to that particular issue.
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