Pleased to confirm a British Irish Intergovernmental Conference has been agreed between both Governments for 25th July, London. This is an important Good Friday Agreement structure for dialog and consultation and will have an agenda dealing with East/West and NI issues @rtenews
— Simon Coveney (@simoncoveney) June 28, 2018
The SDLP Leader, Colum Eastwood welcomed the move;
The Conference must agree on a package of legislation that will deliver on language issues and the reform of the Petition of Concern to ensure that issues like equal marriage are no longer thwarted by those willing to use it to block legislation rather than deliver it.”
“I would ask both the British and Irish Governments to do all they can to ensure this conference clears the way for a return of Stormont, to ensure we can get back to delivering for all of our people.”
The DUP are not so keen on the move as Nigel Dodds says;
David McCann holds a PhD in North-South relations from University of Ulster. You can follow him on twitter @dmcbfs
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