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Grand Lodge Consultation Process On The Review Of The Parades Commission

12 December 2002

The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland is engaged in a wide ranging consultation process within the organisation on the Review of the Parades Commission by Sir George Quigley.

The Orange Institution has been at the forefront of the campaign to replace the discredited Parades Commission with a process that protects fundamental human rights and provides an open and transparent process.

Grand Lodge has welcomed the Review's implicit findings that the Parades Commission has failed. We take no pleasure in having been proved correct in our assessment of the Commission. To enable others to eventually reach this logical conclusion has meant that human rights in Northern Ireland have suffered over the last number of years.

The principled stand and sound judgement of Grand Lodge (whilst others wavered) has been vindicated.

It is essential that everyone learns the lessons of history.

The Parades Commission must be replaced and we would welcome its immediate removal. However we cannot afford to have it replaced simply for the sake of its removal without a viable and just process in its stead.

That is why it is so important that the Orange Order with the other Loyal Orders take the opportunity to comment on the proposals contained in Sir George Quigley's Review and to do all we can to get Government to listen to our views so that further mistakes are not made in such an important issue.

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