The Government should reconvene the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, suspended after the breakdown of the first IRA ceasefire in 1996, to allow it to complete its work, the Workers' Party has suggested.
The party's general secretary, Mr Pat Quearney, said the forum had been a very important body in the search for peace in Ireland.
As a member of the forum sub-committee which had drafted the final but as yet unpublished report, Mr Quearney said, he believed it was wrong of the Government to leave its work unfinished.
Its conclusions, he said, could "contribute much to the building of real peace and reconciliation on this island and should not be ignored or treated as something of interest only to historians".