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  1. Overview: Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992
  2. Full Record: Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992
  3. Committee:Business Committee Strand 1
  4. Session: 1991-06-24 18:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

Northern Ireland Brooke/Mayhew Talks 1991-1992

WORK IN PROGRESS - IN THE FINAL STAGES OF EDITING A series of talks launched by Peter Brooke, Secretary of State for Northern in Ireland, which began in April 1991, and were carried on intermittently by Brooke and his successor, Patrick Mayhew, until November 1992.

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Session 12574: 1991-06-24 18:00:00

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Business Committee Comments on Timetable Proposed by the Unionists

There is 1 proposed amendment related to this document on which a decision has not been taken.

Business Committee Comments on Timetable Proposed by the Unionists

General considerations:

- A level of intensification which consolidated 10 weeks hours worth of work into 2-3 weeks was unreasonable

- This would not allow time for reflection and informal discussion that the Talks required

- This would adversely affect the ability of delegations to appropriately respond to papers

- Schedule C was not the right answer: it was too intense and and did not take account of work outside of the Talks process

16 July deadline:

- The Unionists cannot resume discussions after 16 July as that would be part of a new process. Some intensification of the process is therefore vital.-

Additional meeting times to consider:

- the evening of Wednesday 26 June (in addition to 25 June)

- a meeting during the day on Thursday 27 June

- 1 July (with the Minister of State in the Chair)

- 2 and 3 July

- 4 July (with the Minister of State in the Chair)

- 8, 9, and 10 July

- The UDUP proposal of a 2130 finish time was too late

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