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Record of a strand 2 meeting on 3 March 1998 at 14.30

Monday, 09 March 1998

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The meeting covered letters (i) to (n) of the joint government paper. Debate focused on how the North/South Council would be finances, and whether there was any need for a second consultative body to be set up to be involved in the scrutiny process. The issue of to what extent new institutions would have to follow the smooth running of a new Assembly continued to be contentious. The Unionist parties empahsised the need to not move too fast so as to avoid another Sunningdale, whilst the SDLP pointed out that it could not sell an empty or contingent strand 2 even within the party. In this context, the question of failsafes and safeguards in both strand 1 and strand 2 was also debated. It was agreed that a further synthesis paper would be prepared by the chairmen's staff based on the views expressed by parties.

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