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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Agenda for 7 May 1992 and the Following Week
1. (as expanded by Party Leaders Meeting) Each delegation to make a presentation on the second part of the options for new political institutions paper, taking account of the SDLP paper tabled on Tuesday entitled "Agreeing the Nature of the Problem". Debate should be restricted to broad brush discussion in advance of papers being tabled.
2. Plenary sessions should be adjourned for the remainder of 7 May.
3. A sub-committee should be appointed to discuss the paper circulated by the SDLP on 5 May entitled "Agreeing the Nature of the Problem".
4. The sub-committee should comprise two members per delegation plus one extra per delegation in the room as a helper or observer. Each delegation would also be allowed a maximum of three support staff in the building. This format should be adopted for any other sub-committees in the future.
5. The four party delegations would each produce a' papers on institutionpolitical structures earlyto be tabled on Monday 11 May, preferably by 9 o'clock. The Secretary of State would thor before if convenient. Discussionsider whether they were of equal we of these papers might and could be considered at a ptake place in Plenary meeting later in the morning. That meeon Monday, with a view to remitting could then appoint awork to one or two sub-committee to carry on discussion of thes on Tuesday and Wednesday next week. A fourther papers on Monday afternoon, Tuesday and Wednesday, andlenary to hear the report of the sub-Committee(s) would reportthen to ake plenary sessionace on Friday morning.
6. A Business Committee meeting would take place at lunchtime.