Overview

• Hilary Benn and Simon Harris will unveil the joint framework on Friday following a year of talks between London and Dublin.
• The ICRIR will be renamed the Legacy Commission with an independent oversight board and conflict-of-interest rules, empowered to investigate and prosecute where evidence supports.
• A separate Independent Commission for Information Recovery will provide family reports, with information from paramilitary interlocutors walled off from criminal use.
• Ireland will legislate for full cooperation, undertake investigations, allocate €25 million, and create a Garda legacy unit, with new laws also required at Westminster.
• Micheál Martin describes a substantive package restoring civil cases and strengthening investigations, as Sinn Féin stresses rights compliance and the DUP condemns what it calls Dublin’s ‘dual control’ and the timing of the release.