Independent Reporting Commission updates Northern Ireland Affairs Committee members
Political agreement over the Northern Ireland Protocol is needed to help prevent loyalist paramilitary groups from “finding momentum”, a Westminster committee has heard.
DUP MP Carla Lockhart quizzed the commissioners on the impact of the row over the post-Brexit trading agreement - which has been opposed by unionists - on loyalist paramilitary groups. Mr McBurney welcomed the fact that evolving protests around the protocol were overtaken by political endeavours. “There’s no other way for any of us to make progress other than to find a means of solving it and getting things back on to an even keel in all respects, including in the endeavour to bring about the disbandment of the groups.”The DUP walked away from the Executive and are refusing to nominate a Speaker or ministers to allow Stormont to function until the UK Government takes action on unionist concerns around the protocol.
He said legislation around organised crime to tackle paramilitary groups, which the IRC has called for, can then flow as a consequence.
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