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:01:13. > :01:17.And coming up here: A damning report followed by a declaration of no

:01:17. > :01:21.confidence. What does the future hold for the Historical Enquiries

:01:21. > :01:31.Team? We hear from Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly and Tom Elliott from the

:01:31. > :01:31.

:01:31. > :37:38.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 2167 seconds

:37:38. > :37:41.in Northern Ireland. A damning report followed by a

:37:41. > :37:44.declaration of no confidence from the Policing Board. What does the

:37:44. > :37:48.future hold for the Historical Enquires Team? We'll be asking two

:37:48. > :37:51.senior MLAs if the HET will survive the current crisis.

:37:51. > :37:55.Also today, it's been hailed as a huge opportunity to showcase

:37:55. > :37:59.Northern Ireland. So can the World Police and Fires Games live up to

:37:59. > :38:03.the hype? We'll hear from chair of the games, Judith Gillespie.

:38:03. > :38:13.To discuss all of that and more, my guests today are the journalist,

:38:13. > :38:17.

:38:17. > :38:20.Steven McCaffery, and the financial commentator Paul Gosling.

:38:20. > :38:23.Tomorrow the head of the Historical Enquiries, Dave Cox, is due to meet

:38:23. > :38:26.the Chief Constable for the first time since the Policing Board

:38:26. > :38:28.declared it had no confidence in the team's leadership. It follows a

:38:28. > :38:31.damning report, which strongly criticised the HET for dealing with

:38:31. > :38:34.killings by soldiers with 'less rigour' than those with no state

:38:34. > :38:37.involvement. So, with the body under increasing pressure, does the crisis

:38:37. > :38:45.re-open the debate about how best to deal with the past? I'm joined now

:38:45. > :38:48.by Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly and Tom Elliott from the Ulster Unionists.

:38:48. > :38:55.The head of the HET, Dave Cox, is due to meet the Chief Constable

:38:55. > :39:02.tomorrow. What needs to happen at that meeting? I think it is

:39:02. > :39:08.important that there is no confidence in the leadership of the

:39:08. > :39:13.HET and Dave Cox clearly is in the leadership of that. We are talking

:39:13. > :39:19.about a different approach to state cases and non-state cases as a

:39:19. > :39:25.matter of written down policy and guidelines, and somebody has to take

:39:25. > :39:28.responsibility for that. When the person who led the inquiry was

:39:28. > :39:33.direct -- directly asked by the Policing Board he was responsible,

:39:33. > :39:39.he said it was the Chief Constable. The Chief Constable has said that

:39:39. > :39:45.the wrongful policy was a matter of the HET. What is very, very clear is

:39:45. > :39:51.that a policy decision was made and it was illegal, which is the other

:39:51. > :39:55.important thing to say. It was actually unlawful to do this. It was

:39:55. > :39:59.unlawful and untenable, so someone has to tell us what is going to

:39:59. > :40:07.happen to whoever was responsible. Would you like to see Dave Cox

:40:07. > :40:13.resigning? If he is the leader and you have no confidence, does he have

:40:13. > :40:18.to go? My position is very clear. There is no way that I can see Dave

:40:18. > :40:24.Cox staying. Does it stop at bats or does it have ramifications for the

:40:24. > :40:29.Chief Constable as well. -- does it stop at that or does it have

:40:29. > :40:39.ramifications for the Chief Constable as well? We are setting up

:40:39. > :40:49.with the Policing Board in charge 18 to implement the 20 recommendations

:40:49. > :40:49.

:40:49. > :40:54.-- with the Policing Board 18 two implement the 20 recommendations

:40:54. > :41:01.that have been made. League-macro you cannot blame everything on the

:41:01. > :41:05.establishment. -- you cannot blame everything on the establishment.

:41:05. > :41:09.did not believe they were carrying out a proper review process of many

:41:09. > :41:13.of the murders. I think we are getting into a system that appears

:41:13. > :41:19.to be blaming the state for everything. Let's not forget that

:41:19. > :41:24.ever 90% of the murders in Northern Ireland were by terrorists, not by

:41:24. > :41:29.the state. That does not what this investigation was about. That is not

:41:29. > :41:35.what we are discussing. This investigation and this particular

:41:35. > :41:40.room port is very narrow in its focus. Look at the 31 cases, a vast

:41:40. > :41:45.majority of them were cases that the state was involved in. The state was

:41:45. > :41:48.involved in less than 10% of the overall murders in Northern Ireland.

:41:48. > :41:52.There are people from the community that I represent to our saying that

:41:52. > :41:59.they are only seeing one side of the report and they want people to get

:41:59. > :42:04.justice for all of the murders that were caused by terrorists. That

:42:04. > :42:08.might be the case and that might be an issue that is discussed at

:42:08. > :42:12.another time. The point is, we are discussing this particular review of

:42:12. > :42:16.the work of the HET which was tasked with looking after a specific area,

:42:16. > :42:21.and it has come up with these damning conclusions. Are you not

:42:21. > :42:29.concerned that the HET -- HET has been found to be operating in a way

:42:29. > :42:34.that is untenable and unlawful? concerned, just as I was concerned

:42:34. > :42:39.for years ago about them not approaching those who could have

:42:39. > :42:43.been of help and assistance in approaching these investigations.

:42:43. > :42:46.Any number of Sinn Fein, even Sinn Fein collectively, there were any

:42:47. > :42:56.number of people who could've helped with these cases, and they have not

:42:57. > :42:58.

:42:58. > :43:04.once. What needs to happen to resolve this issue is to go forward?

:43:04. > :43:08.If you look at the other inquiries going on, including the police and

:43:08. > :43:12.coroner inquests, I do not believe the system we have in place can

:43:12. > :43:15.actually deal with the past. I believe that we have got to a stage

:43:15. > :43:20.now where there is no confidence in dealing with the past overall

:43:20. > :43:27.because people from the Unionists agenda -- Unionist party see that

:43:27. > :43:31.there is an agenda and that they are not getting fairness and equality.

:43:31. > :43:35.If the vast majority of the people in the country were murdered by

:43:35. > :43:39.terrorists... Whether you like it or not, it is clearly a view which is

:43:39. > :43:46.held by a lot of people, and it is part of the difficulty that we all

:43:46. > :43:51.face as a society. He is giving the impression that this is not fair.

:43:51. > :43:55.You have to remember what this report is about. It is about the

:43:55. > :44:03.unfairness of those who were not in the state cases. It is quite the

:44:03. > :44:07.flip side of what Tom saying. -- Tom is saying. Sinn Fein for a long time

:44:07. > :44:13.have said that the best way to deal with the past is to go through a

:44:13. > :44:16.process, and there are many examples of these, and they have been

:44:16. > :44:23.adapted. It is Unionists who are refusing to go anywhere near a truth

:44:23. > :44:30.process. I am very much up for it. That is where we need to go. It is

:44:30. > :44:40.important to say this, Professor Patricia Lundy, as far back as that

:44:40. > :44:46.point of the difficulties, she was rubbish, her reputation was ruined.

:44:46. > :44:53.Her reputation is intact. All I am saying is that it was quite unfair

:44:53. > :45:02.that but the HET in answer to the report and members of the PSNI

:45:02. > :45:12.ruined her and she has been being vacated and it needs to be said. --

:45:12. > :45:12.

:45:12. > :45:18.vindicated. You have said that the recommendations need to be put back

:45:18. > :45:20.on the table again and that we look at the Legacy Commission led by an

:45:20. > :45:29.end -- international figure to take over the work of the police

:45:29. > :45:33.ombudsman and the HET. Is that one of the options? It may be. He talks

:45:33. > :45:43.about trying to get a truth commission. How are you going to get

:45:43. > :45:47.a truth commission trying to operate properly when you have some people

:45:47. > :45:52.think they have no issues of terrorism in the community and they

:45:52. > :45:54.do not believe there are terrorists in the community? Isn't it to the

:45:54. > :45:57.point that within a truth commission, people would address

:45:57. > :46:02.issues in a way that they do not address them at the moment? You have

:46:02. > :46:07.no idea what anybody might say when they are giving evidence to a truth

:46:07. > :46:13.commission. But we have to take some example with what Martin McGuinness

:46:13. > :46:16.did in the bloody Sunday inquiry where he said he could not give

:46:16. > :46:20.further evidence because of a code. If I could finish this point, that

:46:20. > :46:25.is a major issue for people from the Unionist community. Those are people

:46:25. > :46:31.who had friends and colleagues murdered by those terrorists.

:46:31. > :46:36.are the facts. The facts are that there is something like 400 State

:46:36. > :46:42.killings during the conflict, that in terms of collusion, that goes way

:46:42. > :46:47.up past 1000. In terms of people who have gone to jail, there are tens of

:46:47. > :46:52.thousands of cases of non-state people who have gone through jail,

:46:52. > :46:57.including myself. There are hundreds of thousands there already. How many

:46:57. > :47:01.of the state forces? They all get out within a couple of years.

:47:01. > :47:07.think these recommendations should be back on the table? What I think

:47:07. > :47:14.we should do in terms of the HET is to try to find a way for them in

:47:14. > :47:18.terms of truth and hopefully that will be the racks. No matter who you

:47:18. > :47:23.talk to, people will agree that they want the truth. Give them the

:47:23. > :47:28.truth, but everybody has to be involved, including state forces.

:47:28. > :47:35.might hear another word from you in a moment, but I want to get my

:47:35. > :47:41.guests in. Journalist Steven McCaffery and financial commentator

:47:41. > :47:45.Paul Gosling. What do you think about what you have heard so far?

:47:45. > :47:51.was not that long ago that we had the collapse of the police

:47:51. > :47:57.ombudsman's office. Whether you thought it was a good thing or a bad

:47:57. > :48:01.thing, we had a decisive row over the reemployment of certain officers

:48:01. > :48:05.in the PSNI. All of these issues continue to impact on the present

:48:05. > :48:12.and threaten the future of our institutions. We have police

:48:12. > :48:17.officers who want to invest but are encouraged or feel as if the past

:48:17. > :48:21.hangs over them. We asked some prisoners -- former prisoners to

:48:21. > :48:27.help out with the marching season. We want to invest in the future and

:48:27. > :48:35.we want these groups to pay for the past. There is also the needs of the

:48:35. > :48:40.victims. I think with the reports, we will continue to refer back to

:48:40. > :48:43.it. Do you think it'll find its way back onto the table? It has not been

:48:43. > :48:50.written off by the two parties but it has not exactly been embraced

:48:50. > :48:53.either. We have been talking about it and Stormont. Do you think we can

:48:53. > :48:57.square the circle in terms of dealing with the past, because

:48:57. > :49:04.clearly, people take very, very different views of where we are and

:49:04. > :49:09.how we got here. I think we have to give up on achieving justice for the

:49:09. > :49:17.past. We have to achieve truth for the past and move towards truth and

:49:17. > :49:20.reconciliation and go back to the reports without -- to the reports

:49:20. > :49:24.and say that, unfortunately, those things that went wrong during the

:49:24. > :49:29.Troubles, we cannot punish every single person that was guilty of

:49:29. > :49:33.that. If we did that, the peace process would collapse. The peace

:49:33. > :49:39.process and reconciliation are more important than achieving justice for

:49:39. > :49:45.past evil. So you think it is impossible -- so you think it is

:49:45. > :49:50.possible to achieve truth but not necessarily alongside justice.

:49:50. > :49:53.Is that unacceptable from your point of view? I think it is a reasonable

:49:53. > :50:02.comment, but we have to remember that there is still a lack of

:50:02. > :50:12.competence. Quite a lot of the state history is documented. There is a

:50:12. > :50:16.

:50:16. > :50:22.lot of history documented I am not so sure that the things we have in

:50:22. > :50:28.place can deal with the past. state was involved in terrorism. We

:50:28. > :50:31.can argue about this all day. I agree with Paul that street is --

:50:31. > :50:37.truth is not necessarily equal and it doesn't necessarily lead to

:50:37. > :50:41.justice or reconciliation. We have a conundrum which we can work through,

:50:41. > :50:47.but I repeat the one thing which is agreed, if that's truth, it may not

:50:47. > :50:50.help and it might make people better, but let's get the truth. We

:50:50. > :50:55.have to have some way of dealing with the other issues which are

:50:55. > :50:59.involved. You cannot wipe it out. Everybody agrees that this is what

:50:59. > :51:06.it is about. Victims, right cross the board. Therefore everybody needs

:51:06. > :51:13.to be involved and the difficulties in need to be in the sized that

:51:13. > :51:18.people are facing. -- emphasized. have to leave it there. Thank you

:51:19. > :51:25.very much. We will hear more from our commentators admit later in the

:51:25. > :51:30.programme. Now for a look at the political week in 60 seconds with

:51:30. > :51:39.Stephen Walker. The Ulster Bank announced it was

:51:39. > :51:49.cutting jobs and closing branches, much to the anger of an ballet.

:51:49. > :51:54.

:51:54. > :52:01.Employees were informed of job losses. Reassurance about drug

:52:01. > :52:03.dealers. The police will go after drug dealers. And ended the -- and

:52:03. > :52:13.investigation into how the Army treated certain situations during

:52:13. > :52:14.

:52:14. > :52:19.the Troubles. A storm and committee launched an inquiry and the minister

:52:20. > :52:24.was called to step aside. -- a Stormont committee. But Nelson has

:52:24. > :52:34.said he is staying put. I have no intention of stepping aside from

:52:34. > :52:36.

:52:36. > :52:39.doing the job that I am doing. An opening ceremony at the King's

:52:39. > :52:44.Hall in Belfast on the first of August will mark the opening of the

:52:44. > :52:48.World Police and Fire Games. It's a big international event which is

:52:48. > :52:55.held every two years. At one time it was hoped that as many 10,000

:52:55. > :52:58.athletes would compete in the Belfast games. While that figure now

:52:58. > :53:01.looks likely to be closer to 6,000, the organisers are confident the

:53:01. > :53:04.event will showcase Northern Ireland and deliver a boost to the economy.

:53:04. > :53:07.The Deputy Chief Constable, Judith Gillespie, is chair of the games and

:53:07. > :53:13.she's with me this morning. What are the latest figures you have about

:53:14. > :53:19.how many competitors there will be? Even today we have over 6100

:53:19. > :53:22.athletes formally registered, and we remain hopeful that we will get near

:53:22. > :53:26.to 7000 athletes coming over. Whilst we would say, yes, the original

:53:26. > :53:30.target was 10,000 athletes and we are likely to fall short of that, if

:53:30. > :53:34.I had said to you a couple of years ago that you would have 7000 people

:53:34. > :53:38.from 60 different countries to take part in an international sporting

:53:38. > :53:42.event in Belfast, you would have thought it was fantastic, so I feel

:53:42. > :53:46.it will still be a great opportunity for Northern Ireland. Do you think

:53:46. > :53:50.it has caught the public imagination? It is clearly very

:53:50. > :53:53.exciting for the people who are involved. But out there in the

:53:53. > :53:58.community, when you talk to people, you do not hear too many people

:53:58. > :54:03.saying that they are looking forward to the 1st of August, do you?

:54:03. > :54:07.would disagree with you on that point. Around 6000 people have

:54:07. > :54:11.volunteered to be part of the games makers on the back of a very

:54:11. > :54:17.successful London Olympics, and we are going to be using around 3600 of

:54:17. > :54:21.those people in the ten days of the games. We have exceeded our

:54:21. > :54:24.sponsorship target in a very challenging economic climate in

:54:24. > :54:28.Northern Ireland, and that is fantastic to have some companies on

:54:28. > :54:32.board who want to associate with the games, and we have people coming

:54:32. > :54:38.from 60 companies all over the world, really remote parts of the

:54:38. > :54:42.world like Mongolia and Ecuador. Many people are catching the spirit.

:54:42. > :54:49.What will be the economic benefit? The cost to the public is just under

:54:50. > :54:55.�40 million. What is the potential benefits in return for that

:54:55. > :55:01.investment? -- just under �14 million. There is the benefit for

:55:01. > :55:04.the hotels, the pubs and the venues all around Northern Ireland in which

:55:04. > :55:09.these visitors will be interested in going. It is also the legacy of the

:55:09. > :55:12.games. The relationships between our services and the community, the

:55:12. > :55:17.relationships between some of the schools and international teams, for

:55:17. > :55:22.example, we have a buddy scheme where some of our primary schools

:55:22. > :55:31.have been but eat up with some teams coming from across the world, and it

:55:31. > :55:37.will be a fantastic opportunity for the volunteer -- Olympics -- for the

:55:37. > :55:42.volunteers, who may be going on to volunteer at the Commonwealth games.

:55:42. > :55:45.But the economic benefit was talked up at the start of the process.

:55:45. > :55:53.There were huge figures bandied around for the economic benefit for

:55:53. > :55:58.Northern Ireland over a period of time in relation to the G8 summit

:55:58. > :56:04.happening. Do you think you over and the pudding at the outset? Bear in

:56:04. > :56:10.mind that the games are paid for by the athletes themselves. These are

:56:10. > :56:14.retired police officers and fire service workers who are coming to

:56:14. > :56:16.participate in these games. It is very different from the Commonwealth

:56:16. > :56:21.games and Olympic Games where there is a significant sponsorship. These

:56:21. > :56:27.people are coming out of their own money. The global recession has had

:56:27. > :56:29.an impact on the games, but bear in mind, even now, we have 6100 people

:56:29. > :56:33.who have indicated that they are coming and they have booked

:56:33. > :56:37.accommodation and they are coming, so it is going to be a great

:56:37. > :56:42.opportunity for Belfast and the whole of Northern Ireland. I am sure

:56:42. > :56:45.a lot of people would agree with you. But some people might see a

:56:45. > :56:48.difficulties in the fact that this time last year, we were looking

:56:49. > :56:51.forward to the Olympics, and that was the pinnacle of athletic

:56:51. > :56:56.achievement, said people have that fresh in their minds. They are

:56:56. > :57:00.watching Wimbledon at the moment. We know there is so much excellent

:57:00. > :57:03.sport out there. These are not professional sportsmen and women. I

:57:03. > :57:08.just wonder is there the public interest to the same extent. It is

:57:08. > :57:10.not likely, is it? It is true to say that the ethos of the World Police

:57:11. > :57:17.and Fire Games is not about world-class sport, although there

:57:17. > :57:20.are some world-class athletes who take part. We have some excellent

:57:20. > :57:27.athletes who have taken part at a national and international level.

:57:27. > :57:29.But the whole ethos of the games is about the timeliness of them --

:57:29. > :57:35.friendliness of them. I think the local people want to be involved in

:57:35. > :57:39.that. There will be links to all of the things that are going on at the

:57:39. > :57:44.same time. It is a fantastic opportunity for the local community

:57:44. > :57:47.to reengage with their local services. I cannot let you go

:57:47. > :57:51.without asking about the earlier discussion that we had today, the

:57:51. > :57:57.HET and quite what happens to it. Is it not usually embarrassing for the

:57:57. > :58:01.PSNI that an organisation that it is responsible for has been found by

:58:01. > :58:07.inspectors to be operating in a way deemed to be untenable and illegal

:58:07. > :58:11.and have misinterpreted the very law? I think the Chief Constable has

:58:11. > :58:14.dealt competently with this in the last couple of days. We have

:58:14. > :58:19.recognised the gravity of the situation. The recommendations in

:58:19. > :58:23.the report will be moving quickly to implement with the oversight of the

:58:23. > :58:27.Policing Board. This has to be viewed with the wider context of the

:58:27. > :58:31.past. If this report does nothing else but to re-energize that

:58:31. > :58:36.conversation about the wider legacy issues and how we deal with them as

:58:36. > :58:39.a society, that is very welcome. will be a very difficult

:58:39. > :58:48.conversation tomorrow between mats Baggett and Dave Cox tomorrow

:58:48. > :58:53.afternoon. And that is one that needs to take place. We need to talk

:58:53. > :58:56.about how we will re-energize the Policing Board of the longer term.

:58:56. > :59:03.It is a Constable -- conversation between the Chief Constable and the

:59:03. > :59:08.HET. I think the Chief Constable will be looking for Dave's

:59:09. > :59:13.insurances about -- assurances about the commenting these as soon as

:59:13. > :59:20.possible. Just time for a final word with our guests Steven McCaffery and

:59:20. > :59:25.Paul Gosling. Looking forward to them? It means nothing to me, I am

:59:25. > :59:35.afraid. I had never even heard of the Historical Enquires Team before.

:59:35. > :59:36.

:59:36. > :59:43.We have the -- the City of Culture is magnificent and has turned the

:59:43. > :59:46.city around, but I will not even be switching the television on for the

:59:46. > :59:56.World Police and Fire Games. It'll hopefully be part of a quiet and

:59:56. > :59:56.

:59:56. > :59:58.positive summer. The recall of the Assembly tomorrow to debate the

:59:58. > :00:02.allegations made about political interference in the running of the

:00:02. > :00:06.NI Housing Executive? I think it is going to be a very heated meeting.

:00:06. > :00:10.There has been an absence of scrutiny from the point of view of

:00:10. > :00:15.the public. There were some damning allegations brought to the table