Gregory Campbell says ‘legacy bill’ will end up in High Court and truth recovery mechanism will ‘end up nowhere’

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00:00 outlining the difficulties surrounding this entire process, and given the convoluted,

00:05 protracted nature of this for such a long time, and given what inevitably will happen

00:10 when this passes as it will, that it will end up in the High Court. Does he understand

00:15 that this is going to be an entirely convoluted academic process that is going to end up nowhere?

00:21 I'm afraid I don't. I was saying that a number of valid attempts have been made to

00:29 address this issue since the Belfast Good Friday Agreement, and indeed it was interesting

00:36 in one of the debates that I attended, as I've reminded the House in the past, with

00:41 some of the women who were behind the Belfast Good Friday Agreement, when one of them was

00:48 asked what was the thing that was her biggest regret about the time. And the regret was

00:55 that nothing was done for victims. And a number of these attempts were undertaken when the

01:01 Right Honourable Gentleman for Leeds Central was administering government, and I know,

01:05 because of his slightly worried about his brilliant academic mind and his recall for

01:12 any of our future exchanges, but I know that he'll remember all too well the difficulties

01:16 and complexities involved in these issues. But it's also incumbent on us to ensure

01:24 that any process for dealing with the past focuses on measures that can deliver positive

01:32 outcomes for as many of those directly affected by the troubles as possible.

01:37 Yeah.