Legacy Bill ‘not the way to address Northern Ireland’s past’

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Government’s legacy Bill is not the way to deal with Northern Ireland’s past, commissioner for victims and survivors Ian Jeffers has said. Mr Jeffers said the Government is looking at the Omagh bomb separately because it happened after the signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and does not fall into the period covered by the proposed Bill. “I think there is a concern among the victims’ groups with the legacy Bill now making its march through Parliament that it will get passed potentially, and they won’t have this opportunity to get effectively truth and justice, and that’s something we shouldn’t deny any of our victims,” he told the BBC’s Sunday Politics Northern Ireland programme. We're 25 years into the marking of the Good Friday Agreement and we haven't addressed the legacy of the past, and the Bill isn't the way to do that Ian Jeffers, commissioner for victims and survivors He said from the moment he took up the victims commissioner post last May, he has been campaigning for the Bill to be scrapped.